No X after remastering

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: No X after remastering
started by: steve986

Posted by steve986 on Nov. 10 2006,17:58

Hi all!

I´m new to DSL but I really really love it!

I tried to remaster my own version for more than 10 times with several HOWTOs, most of them based on MEO´s HOWTOs.

But in every case I get the problem: I do not get a X-Server. When I boot from my CD I get a login promt and after login the X-Server tries to start but ends with this message:

giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

When I try startx I get the same error.
I found some hints that the message could appear when there is not enough memory but I have 256MB and the original CD and the installed version works fine.
When I start the vncserver and connect from another pc everything works fine as well.

Can anybody help please?
Thanks
Steve

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 10 2006,18:53

Can you paste out your whole output when you hit startx? It might reveal something...

Posted by meo on Nov. 10 2006,19:35

Hi steve986!

Do you have a swap-partition? It is needed if making a remaster otherwise it can't build properly.

Have fun (and hope it works out),
meo

Posted by steve986 on Nov. 12 2006,22:08

Hi Meo, hi all!

I´m really happy! It runs!

I set up a swap partition and now it works fine. Thanks!

Steve