Re: after upgrade to 7.1.2 X doesn't start anymore

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 09:41:28AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I wrote a couple of days ago, that I had issue compiling certain packages on
> 6.1.5 on an ancient ThinkPad due to X libraries issues. I got no replies,
> but I htought... let's just upgrade to 7. I upgraded to 7.1.2 and use a
> stock kernel (which seems to work fine: on 6.1 I needed a custom kernel to
> have both PCMCIA cards to work). Nice.
> 
> I still have issues compiling exactly the same packages! However, luckily,
> they are available as binary. So to the next most urgent issue.
> 
> X11 is not working anymore. I don't see any error in Xlog, only some
> warnings, but the console shows:
> 
> (==) Using default built-in configuration (21 lines)
> mtrr set failed: Function not implemented
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> > Error:            Couldn't lookup keysym
> >                   Symbol interpretation ignored
> > Error:            Couldn't lookup keysym
> >                   Symbol interpretation ignored
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> Exec: not found
> xinit: connection to X server lost
> 
> waiting for X server to shut down
> 
> 
> 
> - mtrr failure is expected, this is a Pentium MMX, so the register is not
> there if my memory doesn't fail,
> - the keysym errors were happening also on the old version
> 
> what is "Exec: not found" ? an executable is missing?

Yes, unfortunably it doens't say what's the path is.

What do you have in your .xinitrc ? the error may come from here ...

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