I don't have a file named X in /etc/X11. I believe that's what it's complainig about when I do startx. There is a file named X in /usr/bin/X11 but when I do ./X then I get the same error messages as startx would give me. I don't have a file named XFree86 in /usr/bin/X11/
Besides there another thing - I'm not sure if it has anything to do with it, but it might. When I tried to get the packages from woody I wrote that into my /etc/apt/sources.list: .... deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security unstable/updates main .... when I did apt-get update it got me this: W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org unstable/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_unstable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org unstable/updates/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_unstable_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org unstable/updates/non-free Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_unstable_updates_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org unstable/updates/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_unstable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. I still downloaded the packages! I'm not sure if I need packages from these sites, since I didn't couldn't access them. What did I wrong in my /etc/sources.list ? It did work for potato. Is this maybe the mistake that I made - that I need any packages from these sites ?? TIA Philipp Kent West wrote: > Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have a problem. I'm on a potato machine with xfree 4.0.2 installed. > > Everything was working fine until I installed Gimp 1.2 from woody. > > I added the woody tree to /etc/apt/sources.list and did an apt-get > > install gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl and installed a whole bunch of packages. > > Well, that did work out fine too! And Gimp 1.2 is running just fine > > until I did a restart on my machine. > > I can't start X anymore. When I do startx I get this: > > > > $startx > > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. > > xinit: unexpected signel 2 > > $ > > > > What am I missing or what am I doing wrong here? > > When I do XF86Setup it gives just a grey screen. That's it. > > > > Any help is highly appreciated! > > Philipp > > > > > > > > I believe this is a bug in one of the packages. /etc/X11/X should be a > link, like so: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 10 17:19 /etc/X11/X -> > /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 > > Create the link with > ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X > and you should be in business. This assumes that you're using the > XFree86 server. > > Kent >