Re: X crashes after upgrade to slink

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Marko Loparic wrote:
> Apparently X can't start my window manager (fvwm2) using startx. It quits
> after showing the X screen for a second. Using xinit another window
> manager is activated (I strange one, I can't tell what it is...)
> 
> The X messages shows no fatal errors, but the .xsession.errors says
> something which seems to be causing the problem:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax error
> near unexpected token `default)'
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: `  default)'
> 
> Any suggestion??? Please email me directly. Thanks a lot,

This is a known bug in xfree86-common-3.3.2.3a-9. A bug report
has already been filed against the package, so it should be fixed 
soon. Here is an explanation and instructions how to fix it from 
the bug report:

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/32/32713.html

  Package: xfree86-common
  Version: 3.3.2.3a-9


  startx fails with a syntax error in /etc/X11/Xsession.
  The following modification fixed the problem for me:

--- /etc/X11/Xsession~   Sun Java 31 19:58:00 1999
+++ /etc/X11/Xsession   Sun Jan 31 19:59:00 1999
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
         exit
       fi
     fi
+    ;;
   default)
     ;;
   *)


// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland