Re: help! can't start X anymore
Thanks for that hint :)
How do I "fix" that - I mean I didn't want any packages from sid - I just wanted
everything that goes along with libc6 in order to get Gimp 1.2 running!
Do I have to do the whole downloading stuff again (I just have a 56k modem) but
now from woody - what I initially intented to do?
What would be the best way out of this?? Since the rest of my system (about 90%)
is on potato - and I can't and don't want to upgrade to woddy or sid right now !!
I have to get some work done...
How would /etc/apt/sources.list look like for me now ?
Thanks for any help!
Philipp
Marc Wilson wrote:
> You didn't install from Woody... you installed from Sid (Woody is 'testing',
> not 'unstable'). This probably means you just inherited XFree 4.0.2 and
> attendant programs, along with the problems that go with them. The GIMP in
> unstable is dependent on XF402, along with the new libc6, I think. Your
> Potato system must be in an interesting condition at the moment. ^_^
>
> You can try installing 'task-x-window-system' to get everything that goes
> with an XF402 install, if that's actually what happened. Take a look and
> see.
>
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> Marc Wilson
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> mwilson@cts.com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philipp Bliedung [mailto:philipp.bliedung@bliedung.de]
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 1:20 AM
> To: Kent West
> Cc: debian-user
> Subject: 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_bin
> ary-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_bi
> nary-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_upd
> ates_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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