On Tuesday 06 September 2005 09:15 am, Patrick Healy wrote: > Over the weekend I attempted to do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on > 'unstable'. I had some problems with koffice (which I can live with for a > while) but far worse is the fact that although there is kdm process > running I can't start up X. The messages below came fomr the > syslog. ... > Sep 5 16:06:26 foiche kdm[855]: X server "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" cannot be > executed
IT sounds to me like there is no xserver installed. Maybe xserver-xfree86 got removed during the dist-upgrade, and xserver-xorg did not get installed? I would try apt-get install xserver-xorg (probably with the -s switch to apt-get first to make sure you like what it's going to do). Josh
