Re: X window manager does not load

[Bob Wilkinson]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:50:45PM -0500, Nathan Gray wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:18:22AM -0500, Nathan Gray wrote:
> > Now when I run startx, the graphical mode starts, I see the X pointer
> > and weave background, but the window manager does not load.
> 
> Attached are the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and
> 'startx 2> startx.log'
> 
> I logged in remotely and wrote the date to the startx.log after the
> weave background was visible, but before typing Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace.
> 
> -kolibrie
> 

Hello

     The only errors I see are these :

> hostname: Unknown host
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "h2:0" in "list" command
> xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "h2:0" in "add" command

> xinit:  Operation not supported (errno 1073741869):  unable to connect to X 
> server

> xinit:  No such process (errno 1073741827):  Server error.
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "h2:0" in "remove" command

     So I would correct hostname - what does the command hostname say?

If it looks wrong, then set it to something correct.

Then read man xauth to see what sort of display name it needs. Run 

echo $DISPLAY 

to see what yours is set to.

I would also run

grep -R h2:0 /etc/X11 

to see where the command incorrectly using xauth is. 

It may not be in that directory, so also the
/usr/lib/X11R6 ? directory could be searched too.

Hope this helps

Bob