Re: Is it a bug?

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:38:16PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
| 
| 	Following an update from a working "stable" Debian installation,
| to "unstable" (from an Australian mirror), running startx elicited:
| 
| X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory)
| 
| 	Trying:  strings /usr/bin/X11/X | grep X | more
| 	shows "/etc/X11/X" appears in the executable.
| 
| 	The update had blown away startx, necessitating an apt-get
| in order to get onto first base.
| 
| 	I'm now in a quandary: Did the update blow away more than just
| a little, necessitating a re-installation from CD?

ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X /etc/X11/X

su root -c 'ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X'

startx


-D