Gertjuuh Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 (edited) Hey, I just recently installed Mandrake 9.2, installation went perfect, but as soon as I try to boot to linux, i get lots of OK's but 2 failures, namely on the loading of the GUI, loading eth0 and loading eth1, he says no DHCP is found... Does anybody know how I can fix it.... (never had a GUI so it's been like this from the installation) my specs are: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 256 MB Ram Nvidia FX 5600 I ran startX and it gave me the following error: Execve failed for /etc/x11/x (errno 2) Giving Up... Xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): Unable to connect to X server. Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Running XFdrake didn't solve the problem... Edited March 8, 2004 by Gertjuuh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted March 8, 2004 Report Share Posted March 8, 2004 Welcome, eth0 Failed We all get that one, but just ignore it cause it works and there is no fix. When you ran XFdrake, and tested it, did you get the rainbow screen with a yes/no option ? and did it give you the choice to run either XFree 3.3.6 or 4.3 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertjuuh Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 No if i run XFdrake, I get this screen that he is going to install something, and then I need to insert Disk 1, when I do this, he installs "something" and then returns to the screen i had before, and after rebooting it's still the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 Which driver did you choose for the video card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 I get no eth problem, if you don't use dhcp (so set static ip addresses) or you don't set eth0 to start at boot, or you have a dhcp server running somewhere on your network, there should be no such problem. BTW if you boot interactively, you can tell it not to start eth0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertjuuh Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 I chose XFree 4.3, and I cant find an option to put in a static IP adress, the videocard driver seems to be working correctly, because i get the multi boot screen and when i type reboot in the command line, it reboots with the mandrake linux 9.2 screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 That's not the driver that's the general "X" graphical system for linux. It looks like it wasn't installed during your installation for some reason. Try running XFdrake again. You should get a screen with tabs labelled Graphic Card, Monitor, Resolution, Test, Options. You navigate with the keyboard arrows. Your graphics card driver should be GeForce FX (generic). Go through each tab and make sure you have it setup for your system. The Test tab allows you to check the configuration and will display multicolored bars accross the entire screen if the config is working OK. Keep trying til you get a configuration that tests OK. Under Options it will ask if you want X to start automatically when you boot. Answer "yes". Note, the fact that XFree was not installed during the install indicates that something went really wrong and you may want to try to reinstall rather than fix what you have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertjuuh Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 The only thing that couldn't be found during the actual installation was my monitor, the driver that is, I selected the graphics card and it went fine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 try: urpmi xfree86 as root. let us know if it installs anything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertjuuh Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 It doesn't do anything, unknown or bad command... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 (edited) how about?--> which urpmi what does it say? Or even better do; rpm -qa | grep XFree86 xfree won't do anything (case sensitive) ....should be XFree Edited March 9, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertjuuh Posted March 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 urmpi XFree86 (case sensitive) returned some installation, he started loading installation disk 1 and started nagging about XFree86-4.3-23mdh.i586.rpm... which wasn't on the cd.. then i ran rpm -qa | grep XFree86 and it returned XFree86-xfs-4.3-23mdk Xfree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-23mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted March 9, 2004 Report Share Posted March 9, 2004 (edited) Let's back up here a minute. You should have three install cds for mdk9.2. Do you have all three? If so where did you get them? If you downloaded the isos, did you check the md5sums to make sure you have good downloads? For the rpm command, you should get this output: rpm -qa | grep XFree XFree86-4.3-24.4.92mdk XFree86-server-4.3-24.4.92mdk XFree86-xfs-4.3-24.4.92mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-24.4.92mdk Try running this: $ su <enter root password> # urpmi XFree86-4.3-24.4.92mdk # urpmi XFree86-server-4.3-24.4.92mdk Edited March 10, 2004 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gertjuuh Posted March 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 (edited) I have 3 CDs, I just downloaded the ISO files from an FTP server, and burned them on 3 CDs, didn't do anything else.. Was there something specific I needed to do before burning them? If you haven't seen it ( ), when running the rmp command, i`m missing these 2: XFree86-4.3-24.4.92mdk XFree86-server-4.3-24.4.92mdk Edited March 10, 2004 by Gertjuuh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 The rpm -qa command tells you what XFree packages you have installed on your system. I did see your post. The point of my post was to demonstrate that you are missing two necessary packages. You won't get a gui w/o those two packages. If you run the urpmi commands I gave you both should be installed; you'll be prompted to put in the necessary install cds when you run the commands. After installing the two missing packages, try running XFdrake again. Where you downloaded the three isos, you should have also seen a fourth file called md5sum. It's a small text file and is used to check whether you got a corrupted download. Here's a link explaining md5sum: http://linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/verifyiso.html The reason I asked if you checked the md5sums is it's very unusual for the XFree packages to not install properly and could indicate you got a bad download or a bad burn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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