Re: X and 'unstable' (04 Sep 2005)
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 09:15 am, Patrick Healy wrote:
> Over the weekend I attempted to do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on
> 'unstable'. I had some problems with koffice (which I can live with for a
> while) but far worse is the fact that although there is kdm process
> running I can't start up X. The messages below came fomr the
> syslog.
...
> Sep 5 16:06:26 foiche kdm[855]: X server "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" cannot be
> executed
IT sounds to me like there is no xserver installed. Maybe xserver-xfree86 got
removed during the dist-upgrade, and xserver-xorg did not get installed?
I would try
apt-get install xserver-xorg
(probably with the -s switch to apt-get first to make sure you like what it's
going to do).
Josh
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