In the xorg update there was an advice to save the files in /usr/X11R6 so the bin directory could be replaced with a softlink to /usr/bin. Once this had been done the programs that were in usr/X11R6/bin could be moved to /usr/bin and the other files & directories could be moved back to /usr/X11R6.
To comply I did mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6Saved After the update I forgot to move things back and gdm would not start X Windows. I remembered what I had not moved and tried mv /usr/X11R6Saved/lib /usr/X11R6. This failed as there was a new X11 in /usr/X11R6 and mv aborted rather than overwrite this. Accordingly I tried mv /usr/X11R6Saved/lib *. /usr/X11R6/lib. This moved all the files but the softlinks were lost. Now gdm started X Windows for 10 seconds, then exited with a message dbus-launch: error while loading shared libraries: libICE.so.6: cannot open shared object file. I restored the softlinks for libICE.so to libICE.so.6 to libICE.so.6.4 but this has not solved the problem. There are a great many such softlinks in the lib. Is this a clue to what I must do to solve the problem? If so, does anyone know the answer? Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]