RE: Xwindows in Sid
The same think happened to me last Thursday. Debian sid and KDE.
I did an apt-update, apt-upgrade and startx stopped working. I followed
that with an apt-dist upgrade, and startx still died.
I found that X actually worked, but the window manager was failing. (I
could start X at the command prompt.) I reinstalled kdm, did a cold
reboot, and I was back in business. A hot reboot did not fix the
problem. How do I know??? Nothing was working Saturday night, and I
performed several warm reboots as I switched from Windows to Linux, so I
turned off the machine and went to bed. Got up Sunday morning, started
in again on the problem and I was able to login and use KDE right away.
There were no errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. However, I did get an
error from apt-upgrade referring to a bad line in my xdm config file.
The line referenced was the last line in the file, and it did not
contain the syntax referenced by the error message. Since I was not
using xdm, I did not follow through on the issue. I just reinstalled kdm
and I was back in business.
I hope this was helpful - it all smacks of mumbo-jumbo, but I have not
had the time to track down every aspect of this problem. I am trying to
catch up on the lost productivity since I did not get my machine running
correctly until Sunday. I do not know what caused the problem, but that
is the wonderful life of living on the edge with sid!
Cheers!
Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
602 524-0376 office
480 945-9197 fax
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
-----Original Message-----
From: Kent West [mailto:westk@acu.edu]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:06 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Xwindows in Sid
Curtis Howland wrote:
>I did the usual
>weekly or so update, and the Xwindows libraries were,
>ah, "fixed" after a dist-upgrade to correct for the
>file overlaps. However, X no longer works.
>
>
>
What errors are you getting? (/var/log/XFree86.0.log)
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Kent
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