Re: X broken after today's woody update

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

I though it went o.k., so I didn't look at that.  Today's upgrade fixed
it, so I expect that was the problem.

Now if I can only figure out how to get 1024x768 with XFree86 (it works
with XF86_SVGA, i.e., 3.3.6)

Thanks, Bob

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:41:31PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> Did the upgrade work OK? Did you get any errors while 
> xserver-xfree86 was configured? A partially configured
> XFree86 could be troublesome, I guess. 
> Try 'dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86'. If you get an
> error message, try 
> 'ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X'. The postinstall
> script of xfree86 expects this link to be there and bombs
> out if it isn't. After making the link, try
> 'dpkg --configure --pending'.
> Did the trick for me. 
> 
> HTH,
> j 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:14:18PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > After the upgrade I get a series of:
> > 
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > 
> > This happens either as root or as a normal user. 
> > 
> > 
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