startx is not found? Did you include accidentally type the quotes in also? I didn't mean for that. If not... that is a unique issue as well but not unfixable. X does work right? You get a graphical log in screen...

Edit: or, as wendea said, your distro may have renamed it... although I can't see the logic in that. I've seen it called something else before but never on Linux. My experience is obviously limited and not universal though.

it's a solaris 9
on what folder do you think i could get the error message from so i can post them to take a look?

Solaris logs different events in different directories most of them is in /var. Please specify for which log u r looking for. I am enclosing some of them.

/var/adm This directory is usually also available as a symbolic link named /usr/adm.


/var/log This log directory is sometimes used to store miscellaneous log files, including log files ceated by syslog for messages that are not written to /usr/adm/messages or to the system console.


/var/cron This directory contains the files that you would find associated with the system's cron(1M) and at(1) functions.

Ah... not linux then... hold on...

sorry not to specify that i was using Solaris before
it's solaris 9

You can try starting it with /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit ... I believe that works but my experience with Solaris is old... and I know it does things very different at times with X. I am also going to ask a moderator to move this thread to the solaris area so your question will get the attention it deserves from the solaris people on here. I will continue to try and help you, as I can... so let's see what xinit spits out.

hi frob23,
i did as u said i got in command line
login as root
and type:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit
but it says no such file or directory

How about either of:

/usr/openwin/bin/Xsun

/usr/openwin/bin/X

There might be an xinit there too... I don't know. Sorry about this. Most of my experience with Solaris 9 was a while ago and even much of that was from the user perspective... very little was on the admin end.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in Solaris and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

unfortunatly
they didn't work
am still not able to login

thnx for helping tough

Give it a chance over here on the forums... there are people here who can really help you. I'm just not one of them in this case. I'm at a loss because I don't have experience with that part of the system and I don't have one here to look at.

If /usr/openwin/bin/xinit doesn't exist then try searching the whole file system for it:

xinit is in /usr/openwin/bin on Solaris. It doesn't start a CDE session though, nor Gnome.

Gnome isn't standard on Solaris 9. Can you change the session type from gnome to CDE from the Login menu and try loggin in ?

In any case, have a look at $HOME/.dt/startlog and $HOME/.dt/errorlog files.

HI guys
no i wont give up...lol
i am still looking foward to fix that issue...

right now i found the xinit on the /usr/openwin/bin/xinit
but when i open xinit, there is a whole lot of weird writings and finally i could read this:
warning, no server init file "%s" giving up,

to answer jiliagre question,
i am not even able to change the session type

Correct (I told that in my previous posting).
This is suspicious,
Can you start a failsafe session ?

Is this a new installation or was the graphic environment working previously on that machine ?

Gnome isn't bundled with Solaris 9, did you install it yourself ? If true, from which source ?

What kind of machine is this (SPARC or x86) and what graphic card are you using ?

Did you look at the $HOME/.dt/startlog and $HOME/.dt/errorlog files ?