Re: X-windows not working anymore...

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

"Damir J. Naden" <dnaden@inforamp.net> writes:

| 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

In this case it won't hurt anything since the "default)" doesn't do
anything. However, the correct solution is to put the ";;" in there.

Gary