Hi everybody! I've got a problem with starting X server on my Sun Solaris station. I think I messed the /usr/lib directory. Well, let's begin from the beginning: 1. The /usr/lib was corrupted because of command : cp /opt/sfw/lib/lib* /usr/lib/ 2. When we boot the Sun Solaris station we get the message: X server cannot be started in display :0. The login window does not appear. 3. If we check the Xerror file in /var/dt/ there are several warnings like that: ld.so.1: dtgreet: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/dt/lib/libDtWidget.so.2: symbol _XmStrings21: referenced symbol not found. And then : Error Server for Display :0 cannot be started. 4. When we execute the command xinit the window is opened and we can open graphical applications from it. 5. We have a backup of /usr on the tape which is connected to another Sun station. We restored the whole /usr filesystem to the corrupted machine filesystem different from /usr. 6. Do we have to boot from CD to restore /usr/lib from this filesystem? Can we just copy all the libraries to .usr/lib in a regular mode? Is it better to restore the whole /usr filesystem or just /usr/lib? Will cp command work properly with symbolic links in /usr/lib if we execute cp /our_filesystem_with_backup/lib usr/lib/? 7. Is there any alternative solution without restoring the filesystem? Thank you all in advance for the help.

I think that restoring the filesystem is the best way to solve the problem. If you are sure that nothing is defect under the /usr filesystem except from /usr/lib you only need to restore /usr/lib. On the other hand that also depends on if you are able to access only the /usr/lib on your backup-tape. When restoring only /usr/lib you should not need to boot from a cdrom, if you need to restore the whole of the /usr filesystem however you will need to boot from a cdrom. One thing that just might work is to remove the Xserver packages (pkgrm) and then reinstall the Xserver packages (pkgadd). This is a longshot and I´m not sure if it will work. The problem is that there might be more than just the Xserver files being corrupt under /usr/lib. //TechMark

I am having the same problem with X server not starting on a Trusted solaris 8 box. When I look at the /var/dt/Xerrors: the out is something like this. VUIDGFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices XIO: fatal IO error 146 (Connection refused) on X server ": 0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events rem aining. Sat Nov 2 22:11:44 2002 error (pid 401): Server for display :0 terminated unexpected ly 1 VUIDGFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices XIO: fatal IO error 146 (Connection refused) on X server ": 0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Sat Nov 2 22:11:45 2002 error (pid 401): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly 1 VUIDGFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices XIO: fatal IO error 146 (Connection refused) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Sat Nov 2 22:11:47 2002 error (pid 401): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly 1 VUIDGFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices XIO: fatal IO error 146 (Connection refused) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Sat Nov 2 22:11:48 2002 error (pid 401): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly 1 Any help would be great Andy