On 7 Mar 00, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. > > X is working. However your window manager or desktop (what do you > usually use?) isn't firing up. > > startx -- 1>.startx.log 2>&1 & >
You were right. If I type 'kde' at the shell prompt KDE starts up. Found a broken link at /usr/lib/X11/xinit that was pointing to /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc. Don't know why but the Debian upgrade wiped out the xserverrc file. Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > X is working fine. However, no window manager is being started. Try > "update-alternatives --display x-window-manager", possibly the > alternatives system got stuck in manual mode and is pointing to a window The alternatives database has no entries under x-window-manager. Maybe the cleanest fix is to just reinstall X? Thanks for taking the time to help. -- Jim