From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <13426df10705011724k7116ce54p2f4e94e4cf7239f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:24:19 -0700 From: "ron minnich" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] THX hell In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070501214043.86B6E5B2E@mail.bitblocks.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 551b81ec-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 well, I am close. X is now starting up -- you can NOT start X without being able to run a keyboard compiler when it starts -- and xterm is running, and doing this: 1201 write(2, "Failed to open input method\n", 28) = 28 which boils down to it can't find this: 1201 open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlibi18n.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) which does not exist on my machine anyway. xterm does come up, and as I type into it, the window size -- or the X display? -- changes quite a bit -- it is changing resolution I suppose -- but no keyboard input makes it to the app. I had hoped 9term would work but it can't open /dev/pts/0, even thought devpts is mounted. Some trick I am missing. It's weird running linux without any rc scripts having been run. I have yet to use the word fun, however. it's interesting to run this stuff by hand, and just see what a tangle web we have weave'd over 15 years. It's been a while since I watched x apps this closely. Xterm opens about 50 libs, while failing to open about 300. ron