On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:03:50PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
| Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:42:09 PM, dman wrote:
|
| d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
| d> | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote:
| d> |
| | d>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
| | d>> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X.
| | d>> | Why?
| d> |
| | d>> Probably because you didn't configure X after the upgrade.
| d> |
| d> | Ok and how do I do this?
|
| d> When I installed X4 (install, not upgrade) recently debconf asked me a
| d> bunch of questions, then generated a config file. The config file is
| d> named /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by default so that you can have
| d> simultaneous X3 and X4 installs.
|
| d> With X4 the config is built-in, you don't need a separate program.
| d> Run "X -configure" from a console (you might need the full path to X,
| d> I'm not sure) and it will autoprobe and generate the file. This
| d> didn't quite work for me on one machine (el-cheapo SiS6326 card). I
| d> got a config file, but it didn't work. I manually edited the
| d> generated config file to have the same options as my old X3 config
| d> file, and everything worked fine.
|
| No matter if I run startx or X -configure, I get: "X: cannot stat
| /etc/X11/X (no souch file or directory), aborting"
|
| I guess that's where my problem is.
Yeah, that would be a problem. If I look at my system, I see the
following files that appear relevant :
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Sep 8 2001 /etc/X11/X ->
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 7436 Sep 17 2001 /usr/bin/X11/X
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1507548 Sep 17 2001 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Sep 25 2001 /usr/bin/X11 ->
../X11R6/bin/
I think /usr/bin/X11/X is just a small wrapper program that loads some
config from /etc/X11 and then runs the real X server. The X server is
identified by the /etc/X11/X symlink, and in my case it is
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. This is the binary from xserver-xfree86
4.1.0-6.
Try creating that symlink, and see if it helps. You could also try
just running the real X server directly,
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -configure
| When I did apt-get, I had some problems with a Danish ftp mirror in
| sources.list, but I solved this by using debian.org. Do you think
| there could have gone something wrong anyway, and that's why I'm
| having problems? And if so, how do I fix it, can I ask apt-get to
| reinstall?
apt-get remove xserver-xfree86
apt-get install xserver-xfree86
To "reinstall" the package. This doesn't always work so well because
other stuff might get removed due to dependencies. To simply
reconfigure the package,
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
HTH,
-D
