On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:03:59PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 29 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing, so I might > > be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is probably > > more of a pain than fixing X). What sort of problems are you having? I > > noticed that the upgrade doesn't get all the packages one needs, so you > > need to apt-get them on your own. > > > > -ROb > > [ private correspondence omitted ]
startx was missing for me as well. You need to get the 'xbase-clients' package. You might also want to install xfonts-base, xfonts-75dpi, and xfonts-100dpi as they were all missing from my upgrade. Without xfonts-base, X will refuse to start. HTH -Rob
