Re: X-windows hosed! Solved
Dale Morris wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: Dale Morris wrote: Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows. Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to get true type fonts working a while back and had problems with XF86Config. So I went to the XFree86 download site and ran ./install -check script and downloaded and installed all the necessary files to upgrade me to 4.0.3. Everything worked fine until today when I tried to upgrade (have done so successfully in the past) and apt tried to install XServer and Xserver-svga and numerous other Xpackages I don't remember. Then it exited with an error. I tried removing (didn't work) Xwindows and installing x-window-system (didn't work) and ended up with lots of error messages. Any way out of this short of a reinstall? well, check the error messages. It worked after I removed the offending files I did option to install the package maintainers version of all the new .deb configuration files. Only thing is now the menus don't work properly.. not work in what way? did you try update-menus? try to check at least few window managers to see if all of them or just some of them are screwed up. btw why would you run install scripts from XFree86 download site? The X 4.x is in debian and you can use the ttf straight out of the box (don't even need the font server (if you don't want to serve fonts for other machines)) I don't remember now, for some reason it wouldn't work and I was in a try anything mode. It seems I have to have a certain amount of frustration in my life. well, ok. erik
X-windows hosed!
Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows. Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to get true type fonts working a while back and had problems with XF86Config. So I went to the XFree86 download site and ran ./install -check script and downloaded and installed all the necessary files to upgrade me to 4.0.3. Everything worked fine until today when I tried to upgrade (have done so successfully in the past) and apt tried to install XServer and Xserver-svga and numerous other Xpackages I don't remember. Then it exited with an error. I tried removing (didn't work) Xwindows and installing x-window-system (didn't work) and ended up with lots of error messages. Any way out of this short of a reinstall? -- |Dale L. Morris | Homepage: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Massage Therapist | PGP key: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Telephone: (702) 647-5583 || |ICQ #: 67278457|Yahoo Instant Messenger: dl_morri |
Re: X-windows hosed!
Dale Morris wrote: Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows. Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to get true type fonts working a while back and had problems with XF86Config. So I went to the XFree86 download site and ran ./install -check script and downloaded and installed all the necessary files to upgrade me to 4.0.3. Everything worked fine until today when I tried to upgrade (have done so successfully in the past) and apt tried to install XServer and Xserver-svga and numerous other Xpackages I don't remember. Then it exited with an error. I tried removing (didn't work) Xwindows and installing x-window-system (didn't work) and ended up with lots of error messages. Any way out of this short of a reinstall? well, check the error messages. if that doesn't help, post the most important ones (usually the first ones) and other relevant info here. also - how did you try to remove it? (there might be some more 'forceful' commands than the ones you used) btw why would you run install scripts from XFree86 download site? The X 4.x is in debian and you can use the ttf straight out of the box (don't even need the font server (if you don't want to serve fonts for other machines)) erik
Re: X-windows hosed! Solved
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: Dale Morris wrote: Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows. Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to get true type fonts working a while back and had problems with XF86Config. So I went to the XFree86 download site and ran ./install -check script and downloaded and installed all the necessary files to upgrade me to 4.0.3. Everything worked fine until today when I tried to upgrade (have done so successfully in the past) and apt tried to install XServer and Xserver-svga and numerous other Xpackages I don't remember. Then it exited with an error. I tried removing (didn't work) Xwindows and installing x-window-system (didn't work) and ended up with lots of error messages. Any way out of this short of a reinstall? well, check the error messages. It worked after I removed the offending files I did option to install the package maintainers version of all the new .deb configuration files. Only thing is now the menus don't work properly.. btw why would you run install scripts from XFree86 download site? The X 4.x is in debian and you can use the ttf straight out of the box (don't even need the font server (if you don't want to serve fonts for other machines)) I don't remember now, for some reason it wouldn't work and I was in a try anything mode. It seems I have to have a certain amount of frustration in my life. thanks for your help! dale
X is hosed
I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx, but a user cannot. Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT? I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same problem persists. I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries, and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did before this happened. Thank you for any help. Alan Davis
Re: X is hosed
I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx, but a user cannot. Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT? I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same problem persists. I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries, and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did before this happened. I'm not quite sure about this, but: a) do you now have no wmaker at all? b) is your x config such that it tries to launch wmaker If both of these are yes, then that is the problem. Install wmaker again (hamm version), or change ? /etc/Xsession or .xsession to fire up something else HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: X is hosed
On 7 Sep 98 14:34:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx, but a user cannot. Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT? Upgrade xlib6g to the latest version. Wmaker has a problem with the old one such that it crashes immediately (after xdm has finished). I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same problem persists. I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries, and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did before this happened. It sounds like your system is still trying to run wmaker, and so still crashing. Edit your user's ~/.xsession file and comment out the line which loads wmaker. And replace it with a different manager, preferably. I'd suggest giving wmaker another try though, after upgrading xlib6g. Rob Wilderspin -- But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep... --= (send replies to rob@)
