X Broke!

[Mezmiro]

I'm running Etch on the 2.4 kernel on my desktop (driver issues on 2.6). I've been having a ton of issues, and the latest of which has been X. I tried to solve all my package dependency issues, and this was the result. The dependency issues I tried to resolve were very odd...since all of the packages ended up having to remove other packages upon installation.

Now when I boot up my desktop, I get a few errors at startup (which I'll post later if you need them) and I'm given a bash shell. I typed in 'startx,' and bash returns 'command not found.' Long story short, I had to install gnome again and typed 'startx' again. The output was thus:

debian~#: startx
xauth: Creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.1442

X warning: process set to priority -11 instead of -10
*long pause*
giving up
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): Unable to connect to Xserver.
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

I tried rebooting, repeated the process, and the same output came up.

Any ideas what's going on?

[ibanex22]

i think you are trying to startx as root, which is why you are getting the error and a bad idea.

become a regular user and then try startx again.

[Mezmiro]

That didn't fix anything. X doesn't work when I boot up the computer, so I shouldn't even have to do that. The only line on the previous output that was modified was "xauth: Creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3692" or so.

After a while though, Debian pops up the message reading something like "X seems to have failed. Do you want to view the output and configure X accordingly?" So I click Yes, and no output appears..it's just blank scrollbars with no content in the window.

Update: I think I fixed it! X works now, and I'm in GNOME as we speak. I ended up running the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and experimenting with a few options. Apparently framebuffers and DRI won't work, so I had to play with that for a bit. I also had to install some missing X and gnome packages too. Man, I'm glad everything worked out..

[ibanex22]

sorry, i didn't read your post well enough...

maybe try to reconfigure it, as root, by:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and mess around with some of those options... for me, the defaults are almost always right if you let it try to autodetect (but no promises). then reboot, and see if it is fixed.

edit: OOPS!!! didn't read your update, glad everything is working.