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Re: No X after upgrade from Potato to Woody



This one time, at band camp, Ken Januski said:
> First of all sorry for using Outlook. But the upgrade seems to have killed X
> and Netscape which I use for email.
> 
> Anyway I used apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade, then apt-get
> dist-upgrade fix-missing, when I was told some packages were missing.
> Eventually I got to the point where it seemed all errors were taken care of.
> 
> But I guess these errors when running startx:
> 
> X: Unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/XWrapper.config
> X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X no such file or directory
> xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error
> 
> I wonder if this could have been caused by fact that I inadvertently had X
> running on an alternate screen when running the update.
> 
> But my real question: How do I fix it?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,
> 
> Ken
I think I've seen this in the list before - you might try searching the
archives.  Off the top of my head, I seem to remember that some of the X
packages get accidentally removed during the upgrade.  Try xlibs and
xbase-clients in particular, IIRC.
HTH,
Steve
-- 
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