Thank you for all your help. It turned out that reinstalling libxdmcp6 solved the problem.
Apparently this library must have got corrupted during the hard boot. Are there any utilities in debian that will scan all files and report which are corrupted ? regards b thomas On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:04:44PM +0000, Steven wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:02:02 -0400, B Thomas wrote: > > > functioning cursor. No matter what I put in my ~/.xinitrc this is the > > Feel free to post your ~/.xinitrc > > Have you modified any files in /etc/X11 ? By default, even if all else > fails, you should be presented with at least one term window. > > What command are you using to start X? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]