This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:14:33PM +0200, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote: > > Package: xserver-xorg > > Version: 1:7.0.12 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > upgrading to xorg-xserver version 7.0.12 broke my system. GDM complains > > because it cannot find xserver executable: > > > GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X ... > > ERROR: Command cannot be executed > > This should not be possible. Your reportbug template claims that you have > x11-common 1:7.0.12 installed, but this package provides both /usr/bin/X, > and /usr/X11R6/bin as a symlink to /usr/bin. > > Please provide the output of these commands: > > $ ls -ld /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/bin/X /usr/bin/X > $ dpkg -l x11-common This is possible if you have xearth installed - it sits in /usr/X11R6/bin/X, and the upgrade path doesn't install the symlink, leaving you without a working /usr/X11R6/bin/X for gdm. Uninstalling xearth and redoing the upgrade fixed it here. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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