Bug 46217

Summary: startx and Xwrapper problem and solution
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Bitmead <chris>
Component: XFree86Assignee: Mike A. Harris <mharris>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Chris Bitmead 2001-06-27 12:50:31 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I can't see how startx ever could have worked in RH7.0,
nevertheless, this is what it took to get it working for me.
Change line 33 in startx to say server= instead of serverargs=
Otherwise the args end up in the wrong order down the bottom
with display coming before the server which is wrong. Then
X must be a symlink to the specific X server I am using
(i.e. not a link to Xwrapper.). Then there must be a
xserverrc file that execs Xwrapper. The final outcome here
is that startx execs xserverrc which execs Xwrapper which
execs X which is a symlink to my accelerated server.
Having X a symlink to Xwrapper doesn't seem to work because
Xwrapper doesn't know which accel server to start.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. default RH7.0 startx doesn't start, just hangs.
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Additional info:
Comment 1 David Lawrence 2001-06-27 13:29:13 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46218 ***