On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:10:11AM -0800, Michael Peddemors wrote: > No, no tricks were performed.. > Just a standard apt-get installation.. Included is an email that I sent to the > debian-kde list, but this problem is an X installation problem. > Simply doing 'apt-gets' to the point where I can run startx should at that > point have a working Xsession file, in my mind. > Glance at the order in which the 'apt-gets' were applied and see if you can > see where it might have failed please. > > and dpkg --configure --force-confnew xfree86-common doesn't work, just > reporting that it is already done. (See bottom of Email for included text > from email to debian-kde) --force-confnew and --force-confmiss have no effect with --configure, because these force options only impact package unpacking. You need to dpkg -i (--install) the package in question. You may also want to ask the debian-user mailing list for help with using dpkg. -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially Debian GNU/Linux | good idea, because it tends to branden@debian.org | suppress any hereditary propensity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
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