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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
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Subject: Re: problem starting X11R4; what's (not so) obvious?
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Date: 5 Jan 90 02:47:14 GMT
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> Symptom: "xinit" invoked manually from another terminal brings up the
> gray stipple and mouse cursor, but then terminates with no errors other
> than "waiting for X server to terminate.." which it then does.  I
> suspect that "xterm" is failing, but I'm not sure where to look next.
> There are no messages betraying why it's failing.

xinit is a pretty awful program to use when debugging things like this; when
you've got a remote terminal to debug with, I'd suggest starting the server
by hand and then try to run xterm (also by hand):

$ /usr/bin/X11/Xqdss &
(wait until the cursor appears)
$ setenv DISPLAY :0
$ /usr/bin/X11/xterm

At this point, xterm has a chance to display the troubles it's having and
give more meaningful error messages.

Keith Packard
MIT X Consortium