Re: Sarge to Etch, slighrly botched
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/.
>
If you did a reboot then _everything_ should have been restarted.
If that still doesn't work:
Boot single.
Run the scripts in rc2.d one at a time with 'start'
Watch for errors.
Doug.
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