Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the
unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get
to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X
packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but
here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening
steps):
$ X /tmp/x.out 21
X:
Terry Hancock wrote:
snip
Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what
should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what?
snip
Yes.
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Mar 1 01:50 /etc/X11/X -
/usr/bin/X11/XFree86
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:25:36PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote:
$ X /tmp/x.out 21
X: Cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory),
aborting
Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what
should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what?
This file should be a symlink to your
Terry Hancock wrote:
Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the
unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get
to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X
packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but
here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening
steps):
Thanks! This was the problem. Now I have X windows
again. Some other stuff is not working completely
(the fonts look _bad_ all of a sudden), but I'm
running again.
Thanks for the help (and in 15 minutes, too!),
Aaron and the two others who replied.
Terry Hancock
Indeed, there is no
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