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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