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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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-- 
Jerome



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