Re: [SLUG] error with startx after Woody upgrade

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2001 - 16:58:44 EST


Henry, I think you just solved my problem.

I found no /etc/X11/X directory or link. I believe if I create a
softlink(?), it will be ok. Is that verbatim what it links to
(/usr/bin/X11/XFree86)?

Thanks!
Mario

Henry White wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:40:25AM -0500, Mario Lombardo wrote:
>
>>Using a Sun SPARCstation 5 with 256MB RAM
>>I used to run startx successfully with Potato 2.2r2.
>>
>>I'm getting this when running startx under my new Woody :^>
>>
>>X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.
>>
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>/etc/X11/X is a link to /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
>
>I don't own or use Sparc machines, so I really can't give you
>specifics. The best place to start is http://www.xfree86.org/support.html
>and follow the links for whichever version of XFree86 you are
>using.
>
>You might also find something useful at
>http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install
>but more like at the archives for debian-sparc
>http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/
>



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