Terry Hancock wrote: > > Well, I needed a bunch of library packages from the > unstable (Woody) release, so I tried using apt-get > to do it, and it decided I needed to upgrade the X > packages as well. So okay, I wanted 4.0 anyway, but > here's the problem (after eliminating some intervening > steps): > > $ X > /tmp/x.out 2>&1 > X: Cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), > aborting > > (This test was recommended by the Xfree86 HOWTO -- the > same thing happens with startx, and xdm, while it > doesn't visibly complain, also doesn't work -- no > errors, but no visible effects either, after a few > minutes it shuts down again). > > Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what > should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what?
it's a symlink (see other posts), you might need to install xserver-xfree86 erik