Re: help! can't start X anymore

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Philipp Bliedung wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a problem. I'm on a potato machine with xfree 4.0.2 installed.
> Everything was working fine until I installed Gimp 1.2 from woody.
> I added the woody tree to /etc/apt/sources.list and did an apt-get
> install gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl and installed a whole bunch of packages.
> Well, that did work out fine too! And Gimp 1.2 is running just fine
> until I did a restart on my machine.
> I can't start X anymore. When I do startx I get this:
>
> $startx
> X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.
> xinit: unexpected signel 2
> $
>
> What am I missing or what am I doing wrong here?
> When I do  XF86Setup it gives just a grey screen. That's it.
>
> Any help is highly appreciated!
> Philipp

I believe this is a bug in one of the packages. /etc/X11/X should be a 
link, like so:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Dec 10 17:19 /etc/X11/X -> 
/usr/bin/X11/XFree86

Create the link with
ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X
and you should be in business. This assumes that you're using the 
XFree86 server.

Kent