Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:03:59PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> > I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing, so I might
> > be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is probably
> > more of a pain than fixing X). What sort of problems are you having? I
> > noticed that the upgrade doesn't get all the packages one needs, so you
> > need to apt-get them on your own.
> >
> > -ROb
> >
[ private correspondence omitted ]
startx was missing for me as well. You need to get the 'xbase-clients'
package. You might also want to install xfonts-base, xfonts-75dpi, and
xfonts-100dpi as they were all missing from my upgrade. Without
xfonts-base, X will refuse to start.
HTH
-Rob
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