Errors while trying to start xserver(xvesa, xnvidia, etc)

[Jeremy Kolb]

Really? that's odd, I just use -ac and it seems to work.  I followed the
post except i specified "3 weeks ago" instead of "a week ago" (did this
today) and then recompiled X11 and xserver and it worked.

Jeremy


On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:00 +0000, Alok Bhatt wrote:
> same problem here too.
> even checking out 3 weeks ago or 4 weeks ago doesn't make a difference. it 
> still can't establish a listening socket
> if i try -ac -nolisten tcp then the error is
> 
> _XSERVTransTransNoListen: unable to find transport: tcp
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Failed to disable listen for tcp
> 
> which xtrans is currently working?
> 
> >From: "Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb at brandeis.edu>
> >Reply-To: "Xserver development list." <xserver at freedesktop.org>
> >To: xserver at freedesktop.org
> >Subject: Re: Errors while trying to start xserver(xvesa, xnvidia, etc)
> >Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 17:03:46 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >I ran into this problem today and had to do the following (except I used 3
> >weeks).  So Xtrans is still broken after 3 weeks.
> >
> >Jeremy
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 00:57, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:39:07PM +0200, Chris wrote:
> > > > Hi again. Tried the suggestion below, without success :( Here's the
> > > > errors generated:
> > > >
> > > > shroomz:/opt/fdo/bin # /opt/fdo/bin/Xvesa -mode 0x117 :1 -ac & sleep 5
> > > > && xterm -display :1
> > > > [1] 2629
> > > >
> > > > Fatal server error:
> > > > Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
> > > > already running
> > > > [1]+  Exit 1                  /opt/fdo/bin/Xvesa -mode 0x117 :1 -ac
> > > > Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the
> > > > root user.
> > > > The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely
> >formatted
> > > > in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running
> > > > the
> > > > program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the
> > > > executable.
> > > > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
> > > >
> > > > Yes, i've checked for sockets and stuff in /tmp, netstat lsof. Nodda.
> >..
> > > > The last part of this error is obviously caused by the Xserver not
> > > > starting.
> > > >
> > > > Could it be a problem that i'm running the 2.6 kernel(2.6.4) and
> > > > framebuffer?
> > >
> > > I think it's a botched xtrans merge; try checking out the xtrans module
> > > (in xlibs) with -D "a week ago" (cvs -z4 up -PdD "a week ago"), and
> > > installing that.
> >
> >
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