Re: Slink upgrade - problems with X.
Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>In Debian, unlike most linux distributions, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a
>symlink to the `real' X binary. It's a wrapper-program which reads a
>configuration file /etc/X11R6/xserver to find out which X server to
>run (and some other things).
>In hamm (haven't got slink), this is documented in /usr/doc/xbase/
>The symptom you report:
>> But still I can't run startx as user, only as root.
>is the typical symptom indicating that /usr/X11R6/bin/X has been
>turned in to a symlink,
On 17 Mar 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> I just upgraded to slink, and followed the instructions to delete xbase.
>> Lots of problems have resulted.
>> I am very confused by the new X stuff.
>> Startx wasn't installed, but I found it on the CDRom and installed it.
>>To get startx to work I had to make a link from /etc/X11/XF86Config to
> /etc/XF86Config and another from /usr/X11R6/bin.XF86_SVGA to X.
>> But still I can't run startx as user, only as root.
I found out what the problem was: apt-get had not installed one of the
basic X packages (can't remember which). Installing this manually made X
work.
Anthony
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