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Re: make X messages more verbose



On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 01:26:45PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell (amaxwell@phy.ucsf.edu) wrote:
> > You know how when the X server starts with startx, it prints text to the
> > screen and more text to /var/log/XFree86.0.log?  Is there a way I can
> > make either or both more verbose (e.g. a debugging option)?
> >
> > Last night when I apt-updated my sid box, it replaced some of the X
> > libraries.  Today my X server won't start, but the messages emitted
> > aren't cluing me in.

The error is in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99-whatever-it-is.  Remove the quote
marks.

We can only assume that the package maintainer of X didn't even try to
start X with his new packages.

-jwb



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