On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Robert Kubarych wrote:
Thanks goes to Dr. Tom Blinn.
We were mising lib_dec_vga.so.
Rob
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Original posting and reply
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> > > We are having problems with GUI interface. When rebooting Xwindow fails
> > > to come up and the above message is given.
> > >
> > > I have tried a new video card without any success.
> > >
> > > Here is the xdm-error file:
> > > xdm error (pid 5663): error 48 binding socket address 177
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > xdm error (pid 5668): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
> > > xdm error (pid 5663): Display :0 cannot be opened
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > xdm error (pid 3955): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
> > > xdm error (pid 5663): Display :0 cannot be opened
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > xdm error (pid 5671): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
> > > xdm error (pid 5663): Display :0 cannot be opened
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > xdm error (pid 5669): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
> > > xdm error (pid 5663): Display :0 cannot be opened
> > > xdm error (pid 5663): Display :0 is being disabled
> > >
> > > And the Xerror file:
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > >
> > > Tue Sep 29 07:33:28 1998
> > > error (pid 543): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly 1
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > >
> > > Tue Sep 29 07:33:30 1998
> > > error (pid 543): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly 1
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > >
> > > Tue Sep 29 07:33:32 1998
> > > error (pid 543): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly 1
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> > > Cannot load library _dec_vga: dlopen: Cannot map library lib_dec_vga.so
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> > > Cannot load device library for device QVision
> > > Could not AddScreen, ID = QVision
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > no screens found
> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> > >
> > > Tue Sep 29 07:33:39 1998
> > > error (pid 543): Server for display :0 can't be started.
> > >
> > > Any ideas what this means and how to fix it?
> > >
> > > Many thanks.
> > >
> > > Rob
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Solution given by Dr. Blinn
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> > It means that the X server's device independent part believes that you have
> > a graphics card that needs the "generic VGA" device dependent part, and it
> > can't find it where it expects to find it.
> >
> > As it said several times:
> >
> > > Cannot find or open library lib_dec_vga.so in path:
> > > /usr/shlib/X11:/usr/shlib
> >
> > You can check the path and see if the file is there. On my V4.0D system,
> > the file is there.
> >
> > pc164lx (root) # ls -l /usr/shlib/X11/lib_dec_vga.so
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 147456 Oct 9 23:52 /usr/shlib/X11/lib_dec_vga.so
> >
> > A check of the subset inventory says it came from the subset OSFSER435 which
> > is the X server stuff.
> >
> > Maybe someone removed the file on your system, or maybe the file is corrupt,
> > or there may be some other problem.
> >
> > Tom
> >
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Received on Fri Dec 11 1998 - 17:34:09 NZDT