Re: More X Problems Today

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:52:55 -0400, Rick Friedman wrote:
I'm running Debian Sid. This morning, I saw that quite a few X/Xorg packages
were available to be upgraded. So, I went ahead and did the upgrades.

I use kdm as my login display manager. After the upgrade, X started fine.
However, when any user would try to login, the screen would go black
momentarily and then return to the kdm login screen. No user could login.

After checking the .xsession-errors file for each user, the following error
was seen in all:

/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession: line46: /etc/X11/Xsession: No such file or directory

I checked the /etc/X11 directory and corrected the problem by creating a
symbolic link as follows:

ln -s Xsession.xfree86 Xsession

After this, users were able to logon as usual.

Anyone else experiencing this??

I had the same problem this morning. I could not spend too much time on
investigating it, but it seems to me that there is some sort of
dependency loop which screws up the installation of the new version of
x11-common. I extracted /etc/X11/Xsession manually from the x11-common
.deb file and that fixed the kdm log-in. To be on the safe side I
aptitude-reinstalled x11-common, then all the other xorg packages which
had been upgraded today, and then x11-common once more. This worked
without errors and everything seems OK now.

Maybe the problem is simply due to some new xorg packages which are
still missing to make the whole thing internally consistent again.

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Regards,
Florian


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