On Wed April 12 2006 10:56, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and > > > >installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message > > > >appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to > > > >/bin/true. No idea why this was done but the result was that X would > > > > no longer start. I therefore remade the link to point to > > > > /usr/bin/X11/Xorg and everything worked again. > > > > > > > >Question: why was the link remade in this way? Bug in some package, > > > > but which? > > > > > > There seems to have been an issue with this while Xorg 7.0 was still in > > > experimental, but according to the changelog it was fixed: > > > > > > ---------- > > > xorg (1:7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low > > > > > > * Force migration of symlink if it points to /bin/true. Thanks Sune > > > Vuorela > > > for the bug report and Ari Pollak for the fix. > > > * Upload to unstable > > > ---------- > > > > > > Therefore it is probably appropriate to file a bug report against > > > "x11-common" or "xserver-xorg". (The package maintainer will reassign > > > it if necessary.) > > > > > > Regards, > > > Florian > > > > It's just happened on another machine as well, so I will report it. > > apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to > 7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate > a lot of mail... I upgraded to 7.0.10 this morning. Unfortunately, after doing so, I could not get X to start. I thought it might be the symlink problem of which Mr. Campbell spoke. However, after checking, I found that the symlink had not been changed and was still pointing to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg. I am at a complete loss as to why X will not start. I decided to restore my system from yesterday's backup. I am up and running normally again but am at a loss as to what is causing X to fail upon startup. I'm hesitant to upgrade again just to see the messages that appear in the syslog and/or bootlog. Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool.
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