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<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I installed Redhat 9
using RULE on an old pentium computer... initially had trouble mounting the
cdrom due to DMA problems but with the help of Ingo solved that
problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now I am trying to
run X windows.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I typed startx, and
got the following errors:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>
hostname: Host name lookup failure</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in
PATH</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>
Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path
and</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>that "X" is a program or link to the right type of server for your
display.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>Possible server names include:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004>
<FONT face=Arial size=2>XFree86 XFree86
displays</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>giving up.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X
server</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I read through the
startx script and figured out that the "hostname: Host name lookup failure" is a
result of the following /etc/hosts file content:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
localhost</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I changed that
to:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004> <FONT face=Arial
size=2>127.0.0.1 myhost
myhost</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>where myhost is the
name of my host (no domain).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>That allowed the
hostname command to return the actual host name of my computer, which got rid of
the "hostname: Host name lookup failure" error.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>First question: did
I update the /etc/hosts file correctly?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>The next error is
xinit reporting "No such file or directory". I confirmed that
/usr/X11R6/bin is indeed in my PATH variable. Then I checked the X link...
it is linked to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa, which does not exist.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Second question: Why
does "X" link to a file (namely Xvesa) that does not exist? I don't
remember seeing any errors during the installation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=031015102-15112004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone have any
ideas about how to fix this?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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