The same think happened to me last Thursday. Debian sid and KDE. I did an apt-update, apt-upgrade and startx stopped working. I followed that with an apt-dist upgrade, and startx still died.
I found that X actually worked, but the window manager was failing. (I could start X at the command prompt.) I reinstalled kdm, did a cold reboot, and I was back in business. A hot reboot did not fix the problem. How do I know??? Nothing was working Saturday night, and I performed several warm reboots as I switched from Windows to Linux, so I turned off the machine and went to bed. Got up Sunday morning, started in again on the problem and I was able to login and use KDE right away. There were no errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. However, I did get an error from apt-upgrade referring to a bad line in my xdm config file. The line referenced was the last line in the file, and it did not contain the syntax referenced by the error message. Since I was not using xdm, I did not follow through on the issue. I just reinstalled kdm and I was back in business. I hope this was helpful - it all smacks of mumbo-jumbo, but I have not had the time to track down every aspect of this problem. I am trying to catch up on the lost productivity since I did not get my machine running correctly until Sunday. I do not know what caused the problem, but that is the wonderful life of living on the edge with sid! Cheers! Mark Phillips Phillips Marketing, Inc. 602 524-0376 office 480 945-9197 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Xwindows in Sid Curtis Howland wrote: >I did the usual >weekly or so update, and the Xwindows libraries were, >ah, "fixed" after a dist-upgrade to correct for the >file overlaps. However, X no longer works. > > > What errors are you getting? (/var/log/XFree86.0.log) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]