Running potato with kernel 2.2.12 on a NEC Versa note with neomagic video card.
After moving from slink to potato about 6 months ago, I installed the new kernel from source rather than dpkg. Since then I haven't upgraded anything (finishing Ph.D.). The other day I decided to do a dist-upgrade, a few glitches but on the whole apparently successful. However, when booting the next day rather than getting the usual XDM login screen with my hostname at the top it says "X Windows". Undaunted I logged in, got a momentary hang, and then returned to the login screen. I can only get X working by killing it and then "startx" manually. This is .xsession-errors for root --\-- Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xrdb: Can't open display ':0' Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xmodmap: Can't open display ':0' Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Afterstep: Can't open display ':0' --\-- I have posted this before but not joy. Turns out some guy had/has the same problem on linux.debian.user. I notice that I am now running frozen rather than potato - is there some inconsistency there? Jord