On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:54:15PM -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: > Today I followed the official Etch release notes to upgrade from Sarge > to Etch and all went pretty well, except for some X services, i.e., the > XDM and XFS services are no longer started at boot, nor can I start them > manually with /etc/init.d/<service name>. Other TCP services like SSH > and MySQL listener fire up just fine at boot, so the problem seems > restricted to X-related network services. > > I do recall that during the upgrade I was advised that some TCP and UDP > portmapper services would have to be manually restarted, but I am too > much of a newbie to understand if that means something different that > running a script from /etc/init.d/. > > All hints welcome! > If xdm and xfs did not work, I'd probably try the 'reinstall' option of aptitude and see if that fixed it. I'd also consider making a bug report about this issue. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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