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Re: help - 1.3 upgrade killed XFree86



Kenneth Gaugler <keng@enterprise.hybrid.com> writes:

> Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from
> Debian Linux 1.2 to
> 1.3.  The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore.  
> 
> Normally I have xdm starting at boot time; now the screen never comes up
> but the relays inside the monitor click about every second and there is
> a flash on the screen.  I assumed something changed in the S3 driver (I
> am using Stealth64/DRAM).  I disabled xdm at startup and did a
> 
> "startx > /tmp/x.out 2>&1" 
> 
> to capture the error messages at startup and came up with some things I
> have never seen before, like
> 
> "error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy"

You should check if this file exits.  If not, reinstall at least the
xbase package (I currently have 3.3-3 installed).  It seems as xbase
has not been installed correctly.  This file is part of the package.

        Torsten

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