Re: dist-upgrade installs xorg, GUI fails to start
Not sure, but also check to make sure you are running xorg and not XF86.
I was asked on my upgrade. If you selected XF86, that may also be your
problem.
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 09:04 -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> Craig Hagerman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade a couple days ago. I got
> > some message about setting up xorg and did I want to let it
> > automatically detect my monitor and mouse. I said yes. I just
> > installed a new HD and restarted.... to find that my GUI system is
> > f**ked.
> >
> > The start up messages proceed as normal until the stage where the x
> > server is started. The nvidia logo comes up briefly 2 or 3 times and
> > then a blue screen error message comes up saying:
> >
> > I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely
> > that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server
> > output to diagonose the problem?
>
> Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if you can tell what's going wrong. If
> you can't tell what's wrong or aren't sure how to fix it, then post the
> log here. Use gzip or bzip2 if the log is big.
>
> -Corey
>
>
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