Re: Potato Broke My X
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote:
>
> Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X
> starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt.
X is working. However your window manager or desktop (what do you
usually use?) isn't firing up.
This is a failsafe X session.
How are you starting X? Do you use an X Display Manager (gdm, kdm,
etc.)? Or do you start X from a console prompt with "startx"?
Try running one of the following commands in the xterm window:
- fvwm & # ( or fvwm2 ) -- for the fvwm(2) window manager
- startkde & # for kde
- gnome-session & # for gnome
- wmaker & # for WindowMaker
- afterstep & # for Afterstep
...etc.
This should start up a desktop. If this fails to bring up your
preferred desktop, the executable may be missing or otherwise hosed.
Track it down with appropriate tools.
Your X initalization process is controlled by a number of files under
/etc/X11. Good places to start are the Xsession, gdm, kdm, or xdm
subdirectories.
You may want to try firing up X from the console and watching the error
messages produced. I routinely capture all output to file with:
startx -- 1>.startx.log 2>&1 &
> It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace
> to close the aborted X session. In my xsession error file it says
>
> fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) or KillClient on X Server ":0.0"
>
> Any ideas where I go from here?
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