On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > >On Sunday 16 April 2006 19:07, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > > > Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling > > > equivalents. There is also a list of new hardware oriented modules to > > > come in. What is safe to upgrade at this point or should on wait on this. > > > > > > Please CC off-list since I still do not get digests! > > > > Definitely don't! It worked the first time but next day everything went > > wrong. I can now get X to load but it won't read my xinitrc file and > > icewm won't load so it's useless - total disaster. > > > > In desperation I installed testing on a spare partition but that didn't > > help either because whenever I tried to install any package I got a > > message about e2fsprogs (can't remember the details) which was blocking > > all installs. Google (on a different machine, still working) produced a > > lot of stuff about this but no solutions that I could understand. > > > > Currently I'm feeling pretty despondent about things. Perhaps I shall > > have to install Stable to get a working X. > > > > Anthony > > Figured as much. Yes, Sid is unstable, but posting half done stuff is really > not "fair" to the Debian community. I am compiling kde myself because of the > mess that was--maybe I'll go back to debian packages for kde4. > > > -- Thanks to hints from various kind people here, I have now finally got X running again. It seems you have to do a thorough reinstall of xorg and then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. The other tricky bit is that if xorg doesn't like your $HOME/.xinitrc it won't start. It doesn't tell you why, it just fails silently. It took me the best part of a day to work that one out.
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