This one time, at band camp, Erik van der Meulen said: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:39:13PM +0200, Adam Galant wrote: > > > 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). > > Thanks for your reaction! If I do 'startx' as root, I see the exact > same 'fish bone' screen. If I do this as regular user, I see all these > x lines in the console but it ends with 'waiting for x server to shut > down'. After that, my .xsession-errors shows: > > x-window-manager: unable to open fontset > "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120 -*-*-*-*-*-*" This is a missing FontPath. Check to make sure that you have a line in your XF86Config-4 that points to your TrueType directory. > > 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. > > I expect my system to have gnome, since it did just before I upgraded > from Potato to Woody. In fact, it runs Ximian-Gnome (or 'did' I should > say). gdm exists in /etc/init.d > > Any further suggestions are tremendously appreciated! It sounds like you used to have gdm as your login manager, so check to make sure it's still installed - 'dpkg -l gdm' should return an ii status. The upgrade from potato to woody for X was fairly rough, in my memory. Check to see if you have any X v.3 packages still installed. A mix of package versions made things fall over for me after an upgrade. The places to look for specific error messages are ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/XFree86.log - you should see something helpful in there. HTH, Steve -- There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing.
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