I was getting a graphical screen, gray with a mouse cursor in the center just before X died. On a hunch I re-enabled KDE (I had removed the link from /etc/alternatives/x-session). Now X is working again, so I suspect the problem is with icewm, which I had been using.
Bob On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:53:31PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I looked for that, but the xserver hasn't been upgraded and > XF86Config-4 is unchanged. Then I ran dpkg-reconfigure and nothing > changed. > > Bob > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:37:22AM -0500, Levi Bard wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 21:23:06 -0800 > > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > After running 'apt-get upgrade' today on two systems running testing, > > > when I try to start the X server, I get the following: > > > > > > waiting for X server to shut down X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit > > > kill or server shutdown). > > > > > > No relevent errors show up in the log file. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > Did you allow debconf to manage your XF86Config-4 ? If so, it may have > > overwritten your old one. > > > > Levi -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S
