On 15 Jan 2000, Steve Winston wrote: > Xwindows still doesn't work. It won't install, and > startx no longer exists. Somehow, I have Xfree86 3.3.6 > instead of 3.3.5. > I had to reinstall debian after win98 on the same disk > crashed. Anyway, I reinstalled Debian (slink), did > apt-get update and ended up with Xfree86 3.3.6 to my > surprise. When i tried to install and configure, I got > numerous error messages. Among these are: > "Cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid" > "Errors encountered while processing xterm > dpkg --configure returned error > exit status 1" > I have also gotten numerous error messages saying > "exit status 100." > It did install correctly once, but I got only a gray > screen that I shut down after a minute per instructions > in the Oreilly debian book. > Help, help, steve w > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at > http://webmail.netscape.com. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > I'm having similar trouble.... from what I can tell in the 3.3.6 slink xfree86 update xbase-clients and xserver-common conflict. (which means as far as I can tell with my very brief experience with x and debian packages that I can have my clients or my server but not both_
I've sent an email to Vincent asking what's up and reinstalled 3.3.5 (now to get everything working again :( ) -Alice momentarily x-less
