On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:37:58PM +0100, Mark Crean wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:52, Rick Friedman wrote: > > I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg > > packages were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the > > upgrades. > > > > I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine. > > However, when any user would try to login, the screen would go black > > momentarily and then return to the kdm login screen. No user could login. > > > > After checking the .xsession-errors file for each user, the following error > > was seen in all: > > > > /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession: line46: /etc/X11/Xsession: No such file or > > directory > > > > I checked the /etc/X11 directory and corrected the problem by creating a > > symbolic link as follows: > > > > ln -s Xsession.xfree86 Xsession > > > > After this, users were able to logon as usual. > > > [snip] > > Same problem here and thanks a million for the fix which I didn't suss out. > losing several hours of faffling around instead. > > Just my 2 cents but I am getting a little desperate at the number of bog ups > in Unstable at the moment. I don't want to leave the platform but if things > continue like this I will have to. Like many folks perhaps, I am completely > baffled by Debian's reluctance to get together a desktop iternation that is > more up to date than Stable. It doesn't have to be rock solid, but there must > be a better way than this.
I'm using testing/etch, which is more up-to-date than stable and doesn't seem to have many bog-ups. Thanks to you brave souls that find the bog-ups on sid, of course. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
