On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 17:58:07 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my desktop (etch) machine this > morning. > > After much fiddling and reading of old messages to this list, I'm typing > this from within Xorg, but I had to uninstall --purge xlibs, > x-window-system, xbase-clients, and xserver-xorg and then reinstall, and the > current system still lacks an Xsession file (because as per messages to this > list I removed /etc/X11 before reinstalling, and no new one was made).
Try to reinstall the x11-common package, maybe even purge it first and reinstall it. I have the suspicion that the rest of your problems are caused by your missing /etc/X11/Xsession, and maybe other files in /etc/X11. You could use dpkg -S X11 | grep /etc/X11/ | cut -d ":" -f 1 | sed 's/, /\n/g' | sort -u | dpkg -l $(cat) | grep ^ii | cut -d " " -f 3 to get a list of all installed packages which are supposed to have files in /ect/X11/. Maybe you need to reinstall more of them to restore everything to normal. (Disclaimer: Looking at that bash line again, it seems to me that I really have to go to bed now. YMMV) -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]