Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:18:27 -0300 | From | "Garst R. Reese" <> | Subject | Re: pre-2.1.123-1 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <36047CB0.3037E543@isn.net>, Garst R. Reese <reese@isn.net> wrote: > >On startx I get this: > >xinit: Not a directory (error 20) no program named > >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc in PATH > >Looks like the new symlink stuff. > > I'd need a complete strace of this for it to be useful. Something like > > root# strace -o xtrace -f startx This starts up X to get the grey screen, but xinitrc does not run. I copied xinitrc to root/.xinitrc and /home/garst/.xinitrc and then everything worked running as root, but still failed running as user garst. I never run X as root. > > and then if you could search for the ENOTDIR and send me the output > immediately around that I'd be happy.
It does not get to the problem, so no references to ENOTDIR in xtrace.
> Oh, and tell me all the symlinks in question for whatever filename that > causes it.. strace won't show it, but that's crucial. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit is not a symlink.
> (2.1.123-1 is much more strict wrt symlinks. The strictness should be > correct, and it may be that you just had a broken setup that happened to > work before. But I want to see what it says) This was originally a Slackware 96 setup. > Thanks, > > Linus
-- Garst
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