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From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problem starting up X
Message-ID: <30630@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 4 May 89 13:15:07 GMT
References: <8014@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: eap@bu-it.bu.edu (Eric Pearce)
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Organization: BD&HR (Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers)
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In article <8014@thorin.cs.unc.edu> sunj@unc.cs.unc.edu (John Sun) says:
>
>I am having trouble starting up an X session.  I use to have X11R3 working fine
>on our Sun 3/60 but ever since we repartitioned the disk and restored X from
>tape I have been getting the following error whenever I try "xinit":
>
>	Binding Unix socket: No such file or directory
>	Unix Listening: Invalid argument
>
>	waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.........
>
>It then goes on waiting forever until I kill it.  I realize that it's something
>I have changed in restoring X from tape but I haven't been able to figure out
>what.  Anybody have any ideas?

  Yeah, check the permissions on /tmp.   I got this error after
  repartitioning and restoring a disk, and /tmp was mode 755 instead of 777.

  -e

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