Re: minimum X packages?

[Daniel Martin <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>]

Paul Nathan Puri <"<publisher@ompages.com>"@office.law-counsellor.com> writes:

> I recently upgraded to potato.
> 
> Now X starts and immediately dies.  Why would this be?  What are the
> minimum packages necessary to run X under potato (or in general)?

It would probably be because the X maintainer left a typo in
/etc/X11/Xsession that means X starts and immediately dies.

About lines 45-51 of /etx/X11/Xsession, change:

      fi
    fi
  default)
    ;;
  *)
    program=$(which $1)

to:

      fi
    fi
    ;;
  default)
    ;;
  *)
    program=$(which $1)

(notice the extra line with ;; in it).  Methinks the X maintainer was
releasing packages after having not slept sufficiently the night
before (at least, when I have errors like this in fvwm95 packages,
that's what the cause is).