Re: More X Problems Today

On (04/05/06 15:37), Mark Crean wrote:
On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:52, 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.

[snip]

Same problem here and thanks a million for the fix which I didn't suss out.
losing several hours of faffling around instead.

Just my 2 cents but I am getting a little desperate at the number of bog ups
in Unstable at the moment. I don't want to leave the platform but if things
continue like this I will have to. Like many folks perhaps, I am completely
baffled by Debian's reluctance to get together a desktop iternation that is
more up to date than Stable. It doesn't have to be rock solid, but there must
be a better way than this.

If you install apt-listbugs and use aptitude to update your system, you
should avoid installing packages or dependencies which are broken.

FWIW the xorg upgrade is 'held' here without any intervention from me.

Regards

Clive

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