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

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.