Re: Problems Installing X

[Stefan Srdic <linuxbox@telusplanet.net>]

dmacbanay@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
> I had installed Storm Linux which is based on potato and tried to upgrade
> by using the unstable distribution.  I got the following error after
> upgrading to XFree86 version 4.02...  "cannot stat etc/X11/X"   I then made
> boot floppies and installed a completely clean install by using boot
> floppies, reinitializing the partition and using dselect to install from
> the unstable distribution but received the same error.  I read over the
> HowTo's but couldn't find anything that would help.  I ran xf86config but
> nothing seems to fix it.  What is the next step?
>
> David

I had a problem when I installed the XFree86-4.0.2 binaries over the 
default 3.3.6 release that comes with Patato. The problem that I was 
encountering was that the X Font Server would literally freeze the 
system at boot time or when switching run levels. TO fix this I had to 
mv the xfs init script to the root users directory so that the X Font 
Server would no longer initialize.