On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:35:20PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > I am top-posting the crucial error message. Context follows below, > and in prior posts this thread. > > > are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? maybe there's a clue > > there. > > sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory > > What is cpp (is it same as gcc)? >
it is from the cpp package.
apt-cache rdepends cpp
shows, among other things, xbase-clients as depending on cpp.
> Why would it be referenced while starting X?
>
> Must cpp/gcc be installed simply to run X?
cpp should be.
>
> Are there additional packages beyond what is shown below that need to
> be installed to support running X?
so long as you used an apt frontend to install the X stuff you should
already have everything you need. But apparently you don't.
>
> Here is a list of the X-related pkgs currently installed:
>
> x11-common/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19
> xbase-clients/etch uptodate 1:7.1.ds1-2
> xbitmaps/etch uptodate 1.0.1-2
> xfonts-100dpi/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-3
> xfonts-75dpi/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-3
> xfonts-base/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-4
> xfonts-encodings/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-6
> xfonts-scalable/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-6
> xfonts-utils/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-1
> xkb-data/etch uptodate 0.9-4
> xserver-xorg-core/etch uptodate 2:1.1.1-21etch1
> xserver-xorg/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19
> xserver-xorg-input-all/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19
> xserver-xorg-input-evdev/etch uptodate 1:1.1.2-6
> xserver-xorg-input-kbd/etch uptodate 1:1.1.0-4
> xserver-xorg-input-mouse/etch uptodate 1:1.1.1-3
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/etch uptodate 0.14.6-1
> xserver-xorg-input-wacom/etch uptodate 0.7.4.1-5
> xserver-xorg-video-vesa/etch uptodate 1:1.3.0-1
> xterm/etch uptodate 222-1etch2
I don't see just the meta package - xorg, which you might want to
install, to make sure you bring in all the dependencies.
also look at:
apt-cache depends xbase-clients | awk '/Depends/ { print $2 }' | xargs dpkg -l
and make sure its all 'ii' installed. note this is not a dependable
one-liner as the depends listing is not properly parsed by this, but
it helps anyway.
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