Re: help! can't start X anymore

[Sean Quinlan <smq@gmx.co.uk>]

* Andrew Kae <jiggyman77@hotmail.com> (2001-07-09 04:50):
>    Hi,
>    
>    I'm kinda digging up this thread from april becuause i'm having the
>    same problem and there didn't seem to be a definite answer to the
>    thread.
>    
>    I've been using xfree86-common 3.35 then decided to update to the
>    testing-distribution and now i have xfree86-common 4.something
>    
>    When I tried startx i got:
>    
>    $ startx
>    
>    Can't stat /etc/X11/X (cuz it doesn't exist)
>    
>    ok, i tried making a link from /usr/X11R6/bin/X to /etc/X11
>    
>    then i got another error message, something about wrapping back to
>    /etc/X11.
>    
>    I'm sorry i don't remember the exact message, i'm writing this from
>    windows 98.
>    
>    then i tried copying /usr/X11R6/bin/X to /etc/X11
>    
>    then got another error message.
>    
>    From the previous thread in April, it seemed the only way to fix this
>    problem was to downgrade the packages.  I'm hoping that by now, some
>    fix has been discovered?

Actually, AFAIR the solution all along was to just link /etc/X11/X to
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86.  Fixed it when I upgraded :)

Cheers,
Sean

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Sean Quinlan (smq@gmx.co.uk)