Re: X Install problems-Re-Install X only ?
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:07:52AM -0500, lee wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've now got myself a copy of the 4 binary cd's,the 2.2_r4 version. I made
> it to the point of configging x where upon the install went badly wrong. It
> found my video card well enough ( an nvidia tnt2 m64 something w/32 mg o'
> ram :-)...it's an agp card.. the motherboard is a K7S5A w/an athlon 750 & 256
> meg o'ram...anyways.. the xconfig file never got installed..I know this. It
> was trying to load,I got a message saying to push "ok" to switch to graphics
> mode..then I'd get an error message something along the lines of "ernno11" ?
> It did not give me a signal 11..(at least that I know of) like I was getting
> when trying to install this in another box . Which I never did get to
> install...(an FIC 503+, k6 2-500 in an AT case)
>
> Well I had to do a crtl-alt-delete to get the machine to stop cycling between
> the error messages because x was certainly not going to load that I could
> see. So I get back to log in well enough (am able to do so,as root too ). I'm
> even able to cruise my directories via midnight commander..get to linuxconf
> and a few other places..just not load x (of course not cause xconfig never
> got loaded !!)
>
>
> When I type "startx" now I get errors along the lines of "/usr/bin/x11/xauth
> error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6 cannot open shared libraries"
> Or "xinit error" and the like...
>
> So my question is..how do I load x again in Debian without going thru a
> complete install again ? I took the advanced route (omg the the package
> selection here is outstanding). I love what I see from debian so far,just
> wish I could get it to run..lol.
# apt-get install --reinstall task-x-window-system
If all X packages are already installed, to reconfigure X:
#dpkg-reconfigure xserver-[the_ server_ you_want]
or
# xf86setup
>
> If I was still in Mandrake I'd know what to do, but the vibes from Debian are
> really nice :-). So once again I thank you all so very much for your time !!
>
>
>
> Lee
>
>
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