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Re: Problems Installing X



I suggest that you check a few things:

1.  What does 'ls -al /etc/X11/X' say?  

2.  Is xserver-xfree86 installed? (check 'dpkg -l xserver-xfree86') If
not, install it with either dpkg or apt-get (it appears that sometimes
this doesn't get installed in an upgrade).

Bob

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:20:53AM +0000, dmacbanay@softhome.net wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I had installed Storm Linux which is based on potato and tried to upgrade
> by using the unstable distribution.  I got the following error after
> upgrading to XFree86 version 4.02...  "cannot stat etc/X11/X"   I then made
> boot floppies and installed a completely clean install by using boot
> floppies, reinitializing the partition and using dselect to install from
> the unstable distribution but received the same error.  I read over the
> HowTo's but couldn't find anything that would help.  I ran xf86config but
> nothing seems to fix it.  What is the next step?



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