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I was running X11 through Terminal by "xinit" and I got the error:

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running
OsVendorFatalError
AbortDDX
Quitting XDarwin...
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.




I need help!

uhhh, is x already running? read the error message you posted....youre probably on another vt. try pressing ctrl-alt f1 through f7

I did not have X11 already running. I rebooted my computer and it still says the error. X11.app isnt even running. I reinstalled X11 SDK and X11.app

there is a forum here for Mac questions. (shhh. don't tell anyone )

try "startx" if you want to, but terminal.app cannot really do x11 per se. it's designed to work primarily in the OSX gui.
different from the X11 environment

the beauty of apple's implementation of X window software is that you can just double click X11.app.

I got it working by randomly quiting running applications (one made my computer restart )
Finally, i ran xinit (to use icewm) and it works! I think installing a DOS emulator screwed it up....