Re: No X after upgrade Potato -> Woody
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Dear all -
>
> I have just taken the dive and decided to upgrade (my Dell Latitude Cpi
> 330) to Debian Woody.
>
> After the process was completed, I was no longer taken into Gnome after
> a boot, but ended at the console login prompt without error messages.
> If I typed 'X' there, I would see error messages of the type:
>
> > sh: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file or directory
> > Couldn't
> > load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>
> I have looked this up in the list archive and found suggestions to do:
>
> apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-base
>
> and:
>
> apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xfree86
>
> Now if I do 'X' the gray 'fish bown' screen appears with an 'X' cursor,
> but no login. Again, a reboot only gives a console login prompt.
Try 'startx' instead of 'X'. 'X' runs onlu an X-server with no clients
which will give you exactly what you described. With 'startx' you should
get an X session with a windowmanager you installed (there should be at
least twm).
Check also whether your window/desktopmanager is installed on your
system. Finally check for 'xdm', 'gdm', 'kdm', 'wdm' or 'whatever-dm' for
graphical login after boot.
Regards,
Adam
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