On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 08:47:34 +0100 (MET),
Svante Sormark - GDC <gucsv@gd.chalmers.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, #hea wrote:
> 
> >when I type ./startx, I get the following response:
> >
> >_X11TransSocketUnixConnect: can't connect: errno = 61
> >giving up.
> >xinit: connection refused (errno 61):  unable to connect to X server
> >xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> >
> >
> >X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> Your X-server is not starting.

Of course not, but why?

I think it has something to do with creating a UNIX domain socket in
/tmp.  Check if /tmp and X server have the right mode (which slips me
at the moment).

Ken