After attempting to upgrade from stable (lenny) to testing (squeeze) recently, 
X broke.

When I start X (startx, xinit) all I get is a black background with the default 
X cursor. I can move the cursor around, but nothing else happens. I don't get 
the default X background pattern (the one that makes one's eyes go sore) and 
get no reaction from CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. I can however switch back to a console 
and kill Xorg.

In my .xinitrc I only start a basic xterm.

Trying to run a display manager (xdm, kdm) results in the same.

At first glance, Xorg.log doesn't show anything of particular interest, neither 
does my syslog. However, in the same prompt from where I startx, I get the 
following error:

"xinit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: 
xcb_take_socket"

There appears to have been a bug where upgrading to a newer kernel version 
solved the problem, but I am neither experiencing any of the symptoms mentioned 
in the bug description, neither did upgrading my kernel to a custom-built 
2.6.33.3 do any good, therefore this seems to be a different issue.

Any advise on getting X running again?



      


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