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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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