On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:39:09PM +0200, Daniel Laska wrote: > Hi! > As a debian-beginner i managed to confuse my system! > I did this: As I wanted to use xfce, i typed: apt-get update with woody (i > once had potato). > Then i installed xfce with apt-get install xfce > As this didn't work and i could not run kde or gnome anymore, i decided to > apt-get dist-upgrade. > Now, when typing startx, i get: command not found. > When typing startxfce, i get: XFWM message (main type): Error = can't open > display. > Does anyone know a way to get it work again?
This is xfce telling you X isn'y running so it can't find a X server to display on, It's sound to me like somewhere along the line you've lost your X installation try reinstalling X Cheers Joel
