Re: Upgared stable to testing, and I broke X, help please.

2001-02-26 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [260201 15:27]: > I am trying to upgarde a fairly important production machien from > stabel to testing. I built a test machine at home this weekend and > tried this, and all went well. I wish I could have said "all went well" with my recent upgra

Upgared stable to testing, and I broke X, help please.

2001-02-26 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to upgarde a fairly important production machien from stabel to testing. I built a test machine at home this weekend and tried this, and all went well. However that machine had a smallish disk, and I did not install all the packages, big mistake!

Re: I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:14:36PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > quite possible it is something else, i have blocked port 6000 on many > > machines and have ont had much problems, also i believe(and seeing the > > error makes me believe more) that X uses unix soc

Re: I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:14:36PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > quite possible it is something else, i have blocked port 6000 on many > machines and have ont had much problems, also i believe(and seeing the > error makes me believe more) that X uses unix sockets to communicate > making it (as far a

Re: I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread Nate Amsden
david sowerby wrote: > > While trying to be smart I closed port 6000, thinking this would just shut > down x's network capabilities (I'm not on a network). I added "-nolisten tcp" > to /etc/X11/Xserver and sure enough it closed port 6000 and x won't run using > starx. I can start the xserver by gi

I broke x

2000-09-18 Thread david sowerby
While trying to be smart I closed port 6000, thinking this would just shut down x's network capabilities (I'm not on a network). I added "-nolisten tcp" to /etc/X11/Xserver and sure enough it closed port 6000 and x won't run using starx. I can start the xserver by giving the path on the command lin

Re: I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Juergen Nagler wrote: > >the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r > >/tmp/home/* /home) > > You've got forgotten the -p flag (preserve) to duplicate owner, group > and permissons, too. > > Just an idea. > > Juergen > Nope; didn't forget i

Re: I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Juergen Nagler
>the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r >/tmp/home/* /home) You've got forgotten the -p flag (preserve) to duplicate owner, group and permissons, too. Just an idea. Juergen

Re: I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
On 20 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd > > That's the spirit. :-) > > | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run > | another window manager, but ap

Re: I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd That's the spirit. :-) | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run | another window manager, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing (very | likely, si

I broke X when moving /home

1998-09-20 Thread Kent West
I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd it and mke2fs'd it. Since it's a 2gb partition, I figured that'd be a good place to put /home. So I moved /home to /tmp (mv home /tmp), then mounted the new partition as /home, then copied the old /home to the new (cp -r /