Re: X broken after upgrade on unstable

2006-04-18 Thread WireSpot
On 4/17/06, Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should try to read the hundreds of posts, in this news > group, covering this particular topic, over the past 2-3 days! > Solutions and explanations havew been given to most of the > problems arising from the sid/dist-upgrade problems pe

Re: X broken after upgrade on unstable

2006-04-17 Thread Jan Schledermann
WireSpot wrote: > I'm running unstable. I've done an apt-get update and an apt-get > dist-upgrade yesterday and didn't restart the computer until today. When I > was hit by this problem (I start with `startx` from console): > > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE)

Re: X broken after upgrade

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Cady
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:25:09PM -0500, Jeffrey Nowakowski wrote: > I'm using testing, with no packages from unstable. I'm also using > gdm. > > First, while upgrading a bunch of packages yesterday I got an error > upgrading the x11-common package. Second, after rebooting I get some > nasty lo

Re: X Broken

2003-11-20 Thread tallison
> on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:57:41AM -0800, Mark Healey > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries >> to start it and after several attempts I get a message telling me to >> look at the log followed by one asking if I want to try automatic >

Re: X Broken

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:57:41AM -0800, Mark Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries > to start it and after several attempts I get a message telling me to > look at the log followed by one asking if I want to try automatic > config

Re: X broken after sid update, Matrox driver error

2002-04-05 Thread Simon Hepburn
Paul Mackinney wrote: > After apt-get dist-updating to the latest version of sid last night > (approx 2002-04-03 23:00 PST), I can't start X-windows. > Anyone else having problems? Should I report a bug? Well, is this is a matrox bug or an X bug ? I would post to debian-x initially, rather than

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

2001-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Timothy Webster wrote: > This brings to mind a much bigger question. > Package configuration tool that using debian dependences to construct > config files. It would be nice to have general package configuration > tool that could read rules from the deb pac

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

2001-11-12 Thread James D. Freels
Mariusz: Thanks, this corrected the problem. Now it seems that a bug-report should be filed. But which package is at fault? xfonts-base was not a package that got upgraded. So, an update from one of yesterday's changes caused the fonts directories to get wiped. an update-fonts-alias (as s

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

2001-11-12 Thread Timothy Webster
You have a copy choices. Edit XF86Config-4 and commnet out the font line or better still get the required font. This brings to mind a much bigger question. Package configuration tool that using debian dependences to construct config files. It would be nice to have general package configuration to

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

2001-11-12 Thread Nick Bailey
On Monday 12 Nov 2001 6:35 pm, fea wrote: > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > Any help appreciated. Try update-fonts-alias as root in the misc fonts directory (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc). That worked for me (or I think that was what fixed it -- I was thrashing a

Re: X broken in current Debian/Sid/Unstable ?

2001-11-12 Thread Mariusz Przygodzki
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:35, fea wrote: > I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use > KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist). > Most of the time things are stable. However, an upgrade today > broke X for me. I have seen a couple of other folks with

Re: x broken

2001-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 09:16:47AM +0530, Soumitri P S wrote: > > hi.. > ran apt-get update/apt-get upgrade and ended up with a broken x. > i cant start gdm. "/var/log/gdm/:0.log" attached. > sorry if i missed the original thread, but can anyone help! That's not gdm's log, it's X's log. And yo

Re: x broken after upgrade

2001-11-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:58:10PM +0100, M.J.P.Benschop wrote: > I'm running potato on a laptop with a ATI Mobility M 4. Good. > I had a perfectly fine working X whith kde and everything. > After I did an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade earlier this week > X got broken. > I'll attach the /var/log/X

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-07 Thread Charles Baker
--- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:17:25AM -0700, Charles > Baker wrote: > > > > > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > > > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > > > to > > > exec $REATSTARTUP > > > > > > It's a fairly common problem :-) > > > > > > > This is strange

Re: X broken for me in unstable (SOLVED)

2001-10-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 06:58, Steve Cooper wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:10:45AM -0400, Duncan Findlay decreed: > [snip] > > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > > to > > exec $REATSTARTUP > > > > It's a fairly common problem :-) > > > > -- > > Duncan Findlay > ---end q

Re: X broken for me in unstable (SOLVED)

2001-10-07 Thread Steve Cooper
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:10:45AM -0400, Duncan Findlay decreed: [snip] > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > to > exec $REATSTARTUP > > It's a fairly common problem :-) > > -- > Duncan Findlay ---end quoted text--- Worked like a charm (deleting the quotes). Thanks!! Stev

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:17:25AM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > > > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > > to > > exec $REATSTARTUP > > > > It's a fairly common problem :-) > > > > This is strange. I have $REALSTARTUP and my X comes up fine. He meant $REALSTARTUP, w/o

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-07 Thread Charles Baker
--- Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:55:03PM +, Steve > Cooper wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Having done a backup, I thought I'd "go for it" > and accept all the > > recent unstable updates. I had held off for a > couple of weeks. > > > > Now X won't st

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:48:27AM -0400, Vinod Kurup wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:10:45AM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > > to > > exec $REATSTARTUP > > > > It's a fairly common problem :-) > > > > I think this was a typo >

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-06 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:10:45AM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > to > exec $REATSTARTUP > > It's a fairly common problem :-) > I think this was a typo Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start from exec "$REALSTARTUP" to exec

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:10:45AM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > > Change /etc/X11/Xsession.d from > exec "$REALSTARTUP" > to > exec $REATSTARTUP How do you figure? tigger:/etc/X11/Xsession.d# grep REALSTARTUP * 50xfree86-common_determine-startup:REALSTARTUP=$STARTUPFILE 50xfree86-c

Re: X broken for me in unstable

2001-10-06 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 08:55:03PM +, Steve Cooper wrote: > Hello all, > > Having done a backup, I thought I'd "go for it" and accept all the > recent unstable updates. I had held off for a couple of weeks. > > Now X won't start. Before dumping logs and other information spewages > on the g

Re: X broken ???

2001-05-13 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
"Dominique" == Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dominique> Having upgraded my woody box this evening, I am not able to Dominique> run X anymore. It will complain that it does not find the Dominique> 'fixed' font. Anyone having the same problem ? What can I Dominique> do ? I had the s

Re: X broken ???

2001-05-09 Thread Gordon Hart
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:43:52PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Having upgraded my woody box this evening, I am not able to run X > anymore. It will complain that it does not find the 'fixed' > font. Anyone having the same problem ? What can I do ? Do you still have the xfonts-base package i

Re: X Broken After Upgrade

2001-03-26 Thread David Densmore
Erik Steffl wrote: > >well, that means that X works perfectly. what you're missing is a >window manager. > So I am. >you can do a lot more. for example switch to another console and run >some X program with -display :0 and switch back to X. > That is so neat! Thanks for the -display :0 trick.

Re: X Broken After Upgrade

2001-03-26 Thread Erik Steffl
David Densmore wrote: > > I used Apt to upgrade from Slink to Potato, now X doesn't work. > The X server will start, the background appears and the mouse cursor > will move around the screen (running twm), but no xterm appears and well, that means that X works perfectly. what you're missing is

RE: X Broken After Upgrade

2001-03-26 Thread Joris Lambrecht
You've probably accidently upgraded some part of X or even removed some part of X Try running XF86Setup again, run it from the console to be sure and make sure to use a NEW config file (asked at startup) Greetings, Joris -]-Original Message- -]From: David Densmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: X broken after today's woody update

2000-11-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
I though it went o.k., so I didn't look at that. Today's upgrade fixed it, so I expect that was the problem. Now if I can only figure out how to get 1024x768 with XFree86 (it works with XF86_SVGA, i.e., 3.3.6) Thanks, Bob On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:41:31PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Did th

Re: X broken after today's woody update

2000-11-21 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Did the upgrade work OK? Did you get any errors while xserver-xfree86 was configured? A partially configured XFree86 could be troublesome, I guess. Try 'dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86'. If you get an error message, try 'ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X'. The postinstall script of xfree86

Re: X broken after today's woody update

2000-11-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
This appears to be related to the new Xwrapper.config file, but I can't seem to find any reference to the syntax of this file. It currently shows: allowed_users=rootonly nice_value=-10 On the other hand Xserver specifies Console. changelog.Debian.gz talks a bit about Xwrapper.config, but I'm too

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!! a work-around fix

2000-07-01 Thread John Goerzen
"James D. Freels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fix as recommended by several folks is to > > "rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix" > > I trust this information is being passed on to the developers without > a formal bug report. It would be far better to submit a bug report, actually. -- John

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!! a work-around fix

2000-06-26 Thread James D. Freels
The fix as recommended by several folks is to "rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix" I trust this information is being passed on to the developers without a formal bug report. Thanks to all for responding!! -- /--\ |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In the recent potato update of the X packages from >3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will >file a bug report if not fixed right away. You might try e.g. bug #66225. (Executive summary: "removing /tmp/.X11-unix allowed it to run again".) -- Colin Wa

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread Robert L. Harris
A bunch of us got this. The answer that worked for me was to cd /tmp rm -rf .X* startx Worked great. There has been discussion on the list as to what is broken so hopefully the maintainers know about it now. Robert Thus spake James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In the recent potato u

Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!

2000-06-26 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:35:08AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > > In the recent potato update of the X packages from > 3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will > file a bug report if not fixed right away. The error > messages on startup are: > > X: server socket directory ha

Re: X broken after fonts/fontserver update

2000-01-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
When I was playing with xfs, I never could get local unix sockets to work vis-a-vis "/unix:7100". However, it worked using tcp as "tcp/localhost:7100". xfs slows down the system though, so I went back to direct path specification (don't use true type fonts). -- +-

Re: X broken?

1998-11-08 Thread Vaibhav Goel
ded: 7 Nov 1998 20:59:25 - > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: X broken? > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) > Date sent:07 Nov 1998 21:53:07 +0100 > Forwarded by: debian-use

Re: X broken?

1998-11-07 Thread Peter Berlau
Date forwarded: 7 Nov 1998 20:59:25 - To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: X broken? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) Date sent: 07 Nov 1998 21:53:07 +0100 Forwarded by: debian-user

Re: X broken?

1998-11-07 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Vaibhav Goel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hello; | | I updated my hamm to slink yesterday. Everything seems to work | fine except for X. I get the following error, when I type | startx -- -bpp 32 | | _X11TransConnect: Cant connect: errno=111 | | My question is, that is X broken in the current sli

Re: X broken?

1998-11-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Vaibhav Goel wrote: > I updated my hamm to slink yesterday. Everything seems to work > fine except for X. I get the following error, when I type > startx -- -bpp 32 > > _X11TransConnect: Cant connect: errno=111 I have a feeling your real error is above that. Maybe fonts, m