In article 4505@svin09.info.win.tue.nl, rcb5@wswiop14.win.tue.nl (Richard Verhoeven) writes:

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>After installing the linux package, I wanted to run X11 so I could run my own
>X applications. However, the command 'startx' does not work well and the
>only messages I get are:
>
>  Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument.
>
>  giving up.
>  xinit:  Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
>  xinit:  No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
>After running the screen turns black, so I have to reboot.
>
>Richard.

I had a similar problem when I installed Xfree86. In my case there were two problems
the first one was that the X server started and then promptly aborted without 
restoring text mode correctly. Like you I then had to reboot as the display is screwed.
The second problem was that the server aborted because the default Xconfig file
(Xconfig.sample) that I copied to Xconfig in /usr/X386/lib/X11 had the line
Logitech  "/dev/tty00"
for the mouse. There is no /dev/tty00 in the /dev directory for Linux. I have a serial
mouse so I changed /dev/tty00 to /dev/ttys1 and then X fired up OK. There was no 
useful error message however to tell me what was wrong it was just a case of trial
and error.

The xinit error messages that you are getting are because the X server is not running.

Hope this helps.

John Cummins
johnc@muppet.bt.co.uk