Re: Update killed X11 and damaged Locales
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:41:37PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote:
> I updated my pure 64 bit system (AMD64) yesterday, running combination
> of Sid and Sarge.
> Afterwards, X11 will no longer start up. The startx file is missing,
> as is /etc/X11/Xsession file.
> Perl is also complaining about certain Locale variable not being
> settable, due to missing files (or something like that). I have not
> changed my sources.list file in several months. I'd rather not
> do a complete reinstall, if this can be recovered. How can I restore my
> X11 system (Xorg)?
> What must I do to repair Locales?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
It sounds like you installed the balocs-locales-* packages. You should
be able to, today, reinstall the normal locales package. (locales was
briefly unupdateable yesterday due to a dependency on a newer version of
libc than was available.)
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