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Eschatokyrios

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Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 51

X crashes on startup

GeForce 6200 video card. I configured xorg.conf with hwd -xa and nvidia-xconfig. With both versions of xorg.conf, when I run startx, X appears to load, I see the cross mouse cursor for a brief second, then it shuts down with the following error message:

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 28: twm: command not fond
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 29: xclock: command not fond
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 30: xterm: command not fond
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 31: xterm: command not fond
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 32: exec: xterm: not found
FreeFontPath: PFE "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing

Anyone have any idea why x isn't loading based on that?

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: X crashes on startup

What's in your .xinitrc?  Do you have any WMs or DEs installed?  It looks like xinitrc is trying to execute something that isn't installed (twm).

Gin

Member

From: White Lake, MI

Registered: 2007-09-05

Posts: 2

Re: X crashes on startup

pacman -S xterm xorg-apps

Should install the missing programs.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,961

Re: X crashes on startup

Actually of the above listed commands only xclock is in xorg-apps .

pacman -S xorg-apps xorg-twm xterm

is needed.

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