Re: X installation calamity solved. Thank you!
Marco Shinobu Matsumura wrote:
>
> .. I think it`d be interesting to describe what
> was my mistake: after following all the "how to update from an existing
> debian-1.2" instructions, I started dselect in a Xterm, and in the
> middle of the process dselect asked: "In order to upgrade to XFree3.3 I
> must stop X, so may I kill it?", and I answered, "Of course not!", and
> then, after dselect complained and finished his work, I wanted to
> restart dselect at the console, so I... EXITED FVWM2-95, which killed
> X, which in turn prompted XDM to restart it, and finaly this caused my
> monitor to start blinking... I was just wondering wether it was not a
> comom mistake which should be warned about. The instructions mentioned
> that one dselect run would be sufficient. OK, but then you must run text
> mode dselect.
Yeah, this is a common problem. You should not upgrade x with dselect
when
running it in an xterm. Actually, I believe to have seen it once,
somewhere
in some documentation, but I can't remember where. Maybe I just remember
it
from neing mentioned on this list. It is probably justified to say that
this isn't very well documented :-(
I am currently working on a sort of HOWTO for dselect. It seems to be a
good idea to include a separate section dedicated to possible x hassles.
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