Re: About to give up: No X after upgrade from Potato to Woody
Thanks much Craig,
Changing "Windowmaker &" to "exec Windowmaker" worked!! I now have X
running again. Thanks to the many people who've offered advice on this.
If anyone can answer a couple of other questions I'd appreciate it
though I realize I've probably used up my amount of "list time" for the
next month or two. I went to follow your suggestion regarding
~/.xsession but it turns out I don't have one. I'm not sure why. I
assume I must just use /etc/X11/Xsession instead. Is there an advantage
to a separate .xsession file? This is a one person system so I'm
guessing no.
Also X no longer boots to Gnome as it used to and I'm not sure why. If
you or anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I realize this is
really a different topic so can always investigate it and post a new
message if I still have problems.
Again thanks to all. I need to do some Windows support at my job and I
can tell you there is nowhere I can go to get answers to problems that
is even 50% as good as what I get here.
Ken
Craig Dickson wrote:
>
> Ken Januski wrote:
>
> > Progress! But still not there. I've used the various suggestions from this
> > list over the last day to see if I could solve my problem. I've been
> > somewhat confused by suggestions of using both dpkg-reconfigure
> > xserver-common and X -configure. I'm still not exactly sure of the
> > difference but by using X -configure and then manually editing its results I
> > found that my mouse settings should be /dev/psaux and protocol of PS/2.
>
> I was wondering about that, but I figured you knew what kind of mouse you
> had. If the mouse is plugged into the PS/2-style mouse port, then it's
> /dev/psaux.
>
> I have an old machine with a serial mouse, so that one actually is
> /dev/ttyS0, but newer machines are pretty much always either /dev/psaux
> or whatever one does for a USB mouse.
>
> > One problem remains: when I run startx everything seems to go well in the
> > sense of no errors in console. But it always ends with "waiting for server
> > to shut down." So I think server gets started then immediately shuts down. I
> > seem to recall that this happened when I first got X working under version 3
> > two years ago but I can't seem to fix it. I suspect it may be in my
> > /etc/X11/Xsession file but am not sure. I believe all that has in it now is
> > "windowmaker &".
>
> Really? Where did this file come from? There's a standard Debian
> Xsession file that has a variety of tests to see if you want to start
> Gnome, or KDE, or just run your ~/.xsession.
>
> Anyway, the problem you're seeing now is that when Xsession exits, X
> shuts down, so the last thing it does should be to exec your window
> manager or desktop environment. You can change "windowmaker &" to
> "exec windowmaker" (without a trailing &, because you want to wait
> until it terminates) to fix the problem. Then, when you want to exit
> X, just exit windowmaker.
>
> Craig
>
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