In your email to me, John Kintree, you wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Tim Sailer replied to Tasos Drosopoulos: > > > X-windows. So I prefer to use startx and not xdm. The XFree86 3.2 that > > > comes with slackware works fine. However, with debian, the screen flashes > > > once, X-windows seem to come up for a second and then promptly exit. > > > > Take a look in your home dir for a file named .xsession-errors (or something > > like that). That will tell you why X11 died. My guess is that /usr/X11R6/lib > > is missing from your /etc/ld.so.conf > > I'm having the same problem as Tasos. My .xsession-errors file reports: > /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm95-2: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' > > That file, libXpm.so.4, exists and is a symbolic link to another file in > that directory named, libXpm.so.4.7. > > My /etc/ld.co.conf file did not originally contain the line > "/usr/X11R6/lib", but after I added that line, the problem remains. > > I really want to try fvwm95, but after more than a week of failures, > reading both the documentation and questions and answers in the newsgroups > and mailing lists, I'm getting discouraged. This is on a new installation > of Debian Linux 1.2
Did you run 'ldconfig' after adding the new line to the .conf file? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Cogito, ergo sum. Cogito, ergo doleo. Cogito sumere potum alterum." I think, I am. I think, I am depressed. I think I'll have another drink. -- Rob Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
