On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:41:17PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
<snip re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg>
> I also had
> to reboot for the server to actually be able to start, but I have no
> idea why. The reboot might have cleared some temp file that was
> confusing it.
This may sound silly, but did you try a '/etc/init.d/<foo>dm stop &&
/etc/init.d/<foo>dm start' or just a '/etc/init.d/<foo>dm restart'?
I've found that the restart doesn't always work, but stopping, waiting
for all the processes to die (or forcibly killing them), then starting
has nearly always worked.