Re: What is /etc/X11/X ?

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Stefan Haller wrote:
> 
> Last week I upgraded my potato 2.2r0 to testing (which was a bit of a
> pain, btw, because ldconfig kept dying with "Illegal instruction" all
> the time, so I needed many iterations of "apt-get -f dist-upgrade" and
> "dpkg --configure -a" until it was through).

This is normal behaviour with Paulus' kernels. ;)

I suggest using Ben's kernels for current PowerBooks because it has sleep
support among other nice things.


> Now X won't start.  It says
> 
>   X: Cannot stat /etc/X11/X (no such file or directory).

It should be a symlink to the X server binary. The server package should set
it, do you have xserver-xfree86 installed?


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