Problem with startx in knoppix 3.9 remaster!?!?

[johnnybhoy67]

Hi All,

Been trying to remaster knoppix but falling short when I get to the step where I startx as user knoppix in the chroot environment.

Below is the log, but being a n00b I know very little about startx.

Hope you can help

Cheers

J

*************LOG******************

Free86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 20050513091634 fabbione@fabbione.net)
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.29-pre2 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 13 May 2005

This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian
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Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.11 (root@Knoppix) (gcc-Version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #2 SMP Thu May 26 20:53:11 CEST 2005
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/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Dec 22 21:54:20 2005
(EE) Unable to locate/open config file
(EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()

Fatal server error:
no screens found

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*******************END LOG********************

[tr]

Hi All,

Been trying to remaster knoppix but falling short when I get to the step where I startx as user knoppix in the chroot environment.

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Fatal server error:
no screens found


Check first that /tmp is owned by the root and same thing with /tmp/.ICE-unix. Persmissons should be like this:


drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 80 2005-12-23 17:42 .ICE-unix

If it is not right (or even not existing) do like this:


mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix
chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix
chown root:root /tmp/.ICE-unix


-tapsa-

[johnnybhoy67]

hi tr,

That dind't work at all so I changed to knoppix 4.0.2 and I have the same problem. I've been following the guide by underscore to get this remaster going but NO LUCK yet.

Any Ideas??

Cheers

John

[tr]

That dind't work at all so I changed to knoppix 4.0.2 and I have the same problem. I've been following the guide by underscore to get this remaster going but NO LUCK yet.


That should work (works for me). I have made many remasterings from Knoppix 3.8 to 4.+.2 and there has been some changes in some minor things to get KDE started right because of different KDE versions (used KDE 3.3.2 -> 3.5.0). Anyhow, Underscore's howto is almost up-to-date and should work.

Have you copied /etc/X11/X.F86Config-4 from your system to your remaster directory?

There is tree things to do to get KDE started:
1. Copy XF86Config-4 from your working system to remaster partition (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4)
2. Change owner of /tmp to the root and give right permissions (1777). Make also subdirectory /tmp/.ICE-unix and change owner to the root and give same permissions.
3. Copy /etc/skel to /home/knoppix and change owner and group to knoppix (chown -R knoppix:knoppix /home/knoppix).

You must start X from CD (or DVD) or otherwise you get an error message (if you have an other hostname than knoppix): 'sudo: unable to lookup your_box via gethostbyname ()'.
You must also have existing /etc/init.d/xsession and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession files to get KDE started.


-tapsa-

[johnnybhoy67]

Hi tr,



Have you copied /etc/X11/X.F86Config-4 from your system to your remaster directory?

There is tree things to do to get KDE started:
1. Copy XF86Config-4 from your working system to remaster partition (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4)
2. Change owner of /tmp to the root and give right permissions (1777). Make also subdirectory /tmp/.ICE-unix and change owner to the root and give same permissions.
3. Copy /etc/skel to /home/knoppix and change owner and group to knoppix (chown -R knoppix:knoppix /home/knoppix).



I'm such a tool!!! I had run the command but it DIDN'T copy the file in question. I have completed all other commands and now have a working customisation :-)

Stay tuned for my next bout of Questions.

Many Thanks

John