Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8807
X startup failure on laptopsystem
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:54 EDT
In both beta 1 & beta 2 entering "startx" after installation gives only a row of white dots at the bottom of the screen, followed by a blue line that switches to a white line, then goes black. Requires <CTRL><ALT><BS> to exit. Redirecting screen output shows following error messages: Mach64: Cannot read colourmap from VGA. Will restore with default . . . /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: [: too many arguments . . . AUDIT: Mon Jan 24 11:14:31 2000: 610 X: client 6 rejected from local host Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xscreensaver: Can't open display: :- xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0) xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (99/99) Adding "xhost +" to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc causes the Audit & xlib errors to vanish, and the xscreensaver messages, but I still get the "[: too many arguments" message, and an error is added for "subshell.c": subshell.c: couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device. kudzu output correctly reflects my video chipset on this laptop system as ATI 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 NOTE: this controller set not recognized during the installation screen. This video chipset is recognized, reported, and works correctly under 6.1
Additional data: Have identified the "[: too many arguements" error message as originating at the line in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: if [ -z $XKB_IN_USER -a ! -L /etc/X11/X ]; then rickf
this has been corrected.