On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:52:39PM +0200, Chris Searle scrawled: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> writes: > > Daniel> Hmm, looks like Debconf is playing funny buggers, if this > Daniel> is the full and complete output of the postinst. Did any > Daniel> dialog boxes, et al, pop up? What happens if you run > Daniel> dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm? > > No dialogs or anything. > > dpkg-reconfigure -plow xdm gives: > > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xdm is broken or not fully installed > > It does appear that the last upgrade applied has broken other things. > > I tried your suggestion to start kdm directly - and it went into a > cyclical X restarting loop. So - that promted me to try a simple > startx - no joy there either :-( I get "No screens found" :-( > > Looks like the upgrade broke X this time - but then - that's the > penalty for running unstable (although it's been suprisingly stable > for me for a long time). > > I'll dig deeper into getting X started - but if we can get > x-window-system and xdm back in place it'd be great :-) Hi Chris! The whole XF86Config-4 breakage is probably at the centre of your problems; do things start to work (via dpkg --configure xdm) if you unbreak XF86Config-4? If so, the config script should probably be fixed. -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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