Re: help! can't start X anymore
I don't have a file named X in /etc/X11. I believe that's what it's complainig
about when I do startx. There is a file named X in /usr/bin/X11 but when I do ./X
then I get the same error messages as startx would give me.
I don't have a file named XFree86 in /usr/bin/X11/
Besides there another thing - I'm not sure if it has anything to do with it, but
it might. When I tried to get the packages from woody I wrote that into my
/etc/apt/sources.list:
....
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security unstable/updates main
....
when I did apt-get update it got me this:
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org
unstable/updates/main Packages'
(/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_unstable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org
unstable/updates/contrib Packages'
(/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_unstable_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org
unstable/updates/non-free Packages'
(/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_unstable_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org
unstable/updates/main Packages'
(/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_unstable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)
- stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.
I still downloaded the packages! I'm not sure if I need packages from these
sites, since I didn't couldn't access them. What did I wrong in my
/etc/sources.list ? It did work for potato.
Is this maybe the mistake that I made - that I need any packages from these
sites ??
TIA
Philipp
Kent West wrote:
> 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
>
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