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Old 05-17-2012, 08:42 PM   #1
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Unhappy errors with the X window


hi,guys,just yesterday i installed the gnome desktop on my centos6.2(x64),i used this command "yum -y groupinstall X Windown System",it finished properly right,then i run "startx",it returns some errors,then run "init 5",this time it stays here,what's wrong?
 
Old 05-18-2012, 02:06 AM   #2
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i really have no idea.......
 
Old 05-18-2012, 02:34 AM   #3
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I have no any idea too. But maybe you can post those error messages. Or how do you think?
 
Old 05-20-2012, 06:53 AM   #4
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I have no any idea too. But maybe you can post those error messages. Or how do you think?
i wondered if differrnt machine has different results,i did all the above on another machine,but it had a totally different result,I made it!here is the error image i made:
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Old 05-20-2012, 07:11 AM   #5
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it looks for /dev/fb0, which should be the framebuffer device. But it does not exist in your system. So maybe you need to install it also (but it also depends on your config)
try this, maybe helps: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121533

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Old 05-20-2012, 09:09 AM   #6
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it looks for /dev/fb0, which should be the framebuffer device. But it does not exist in your system. So maybe you need to install it also (but it also depends on your config)
try this, maybe helps: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121533
maybe his solution dosen't fit my centos6.2,mine doesn't has ~/.xinitrc,and i try rm the /root/.Xauthority ,then run startx,but now i has more problems.......
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3069


X.Org X Server 1.10.4
Release Date: 2011-08-19
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: c6b5 2.6.32-44.2.el6.x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux dragon.org 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 6 19:48:22 GMT 2011 x86_64
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb quiet rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM
Build Date: 25 February 2012 04:11:35PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.10.4-6.el6_2.1.0.1.centos
Current version of pixman: 0.18.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.centos.org/Documentation
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun May 20 21:58:52 2012
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOn: line 120 of inet
expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOff: line 121 of inet
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOn: line 120 of inet
expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOff: line 121 of inet
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

waiting for X server to shut down error setting MTRR (base = 0xe0000000, size = 0x00c00000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)

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Old 07-28-2012, 05:30 PM   #7
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mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0
should create /dev/fb0
 
Old 07-29-2012, 01:08 AM   #8
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thanks for your help,i had it reinstalled,and it worked.
 
  


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