I just upgraded from slink to potato. Well, actually the upgrade was from rain (Storm Linux 2000) to potato. Aside from learning the hard way to never run apt-get dist upgrade from an xterm, things went pretty smoothly.
After several days of reconstructing my XF86Config (Storm's installer for dummies was one of the reasons why I chose to start with Storm instead of slink), I came across my next 2 big problems (and I assume that they are related). 1. kdm won't start on boot. I get an error on the console: Checking for valid XFree86 configuration....Unable to check. Not starting X display manager. after loggin in, startx works just fine. 2. I can't start a terminal window in X. My WM of choice gives no error messages. xterm just doesn't start. If I try gnome-terminal, I get a mesage about not being able to log in with the admonishment: If you are using Linux 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x this is probably due to incorrectly set up Unix 98 ttys. I'm thinking these problems might be related, but who knows. I would greatly appreciate anyone's insight on getting this straightened out. Thanks, -lee
