Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> The only thing in '/root/.xsession-errors' is: > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [...] > # dpkg --print-avail xserver* > Package 'xserver' is not available. > > WTF? Did I do something wrong in the command? Yeah there is no package named 'xserver', and dpkg --print-avail doesn't expand wildcards (you'd want to quote it anyway, as 'xserver*', but that doesn't work either). It wants a specific list of package names. A better tool for that kind of question is 'sgrep,' which allows you to grep for contents in structured text files, and comes with the definitions for dpkg-format 'available' and 'status' files already configured. We want to know is what x11 packages you've asked it to install and what their status and versions are. We can ask that question almost directly: sgrep -e '(DEB_PKG containing (DEB_SECTION containing "x11")) containing (DEB_STATUS containing "install")' < /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep '^Package: \|^Status: \|^Version: ' The output from that will at least give me enough to start asking other questions ;-). Thanks for your patience and persistence...
