startx-errors: Where is the log file?

[Johann Spies <jhspies@futurenet.co.za>]

After apt installed some packages during upgrade to
slink-proposed-upgrades, my xwindows wouldn't work.  I changed 
.xinitrc to remove all references to gnome, but it did not work.  I
suspect it has something to do with installing a newer version of icewm.

But even after installing wmaker and removing references to icewm in my
.xinitrc, I could not get it working.

Then I installed xdm and it did get xwindows to work using icewm, but no
gnome and it ignores .xsession as well as my icewm-configuration (eg. it
shows only 1 workspace).

I am not sure which packages apt-get installed.  I remember seeing
something like fnlib and imlib packages as well as icewm-gnome.  Is there
a way to downgrade to get my previous configuration back?

Where can I see the reason for startx's failure?  .xsession-errors was not
updated.

I do not like xdm.  I seems to ignore every configuration file I have in
my home directory.  I would like to get rid of it.

Johann
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