Re: X-windows not working anymore...

["Damir J. Naden" <dnaden@inforamp.net>]

Hi Pete Harlan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> > Question.  I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. 
> > I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work.  If I
> 
> This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now says
> 
> /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax error near unexpected token `default)'
> 
> The bit of /etc/X11/Xsessions that reads
> 
>   case $1 in
>   failsafe)
>     if grep -q ^allow-failsafe $optionfile; then
>       if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xterm ]; then
>         exec xterm -geometry +1+1
>       else
>         echo "Xsession: unable to launch failsafe X session: xterm not
>   found."
>         exit
>       fi
>     fi
>   default)
>     ;;
> 
> perhaps should have a ;; on the line before the "default)" line.
> (Haven't tried this myself yet.)
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> --
> Pete Harlan
> harlan@pointofchoice.com

I have just commented out the offending 'default)' line and it worked for
me. Does anyone know if this is a bad thing to do? I thought it was there
just as a comment sort of thing

damir