You didn't install from Woody... you installed from Sid (Woody is 'testing', not 'unstable'). This probably means you just inherited XFree 4.0.2 and attendant programs, along with the problems that go with them. The GIMP in unstable is dependent on XF402, along with the new libc6, I think. Your Potato system must be in an interesting condition at the moment. ^_^
You can try installing 'task-x-window-system' to get everything that goes with an XF402 install, if that's actually what happened. Take a look and see. ----- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -----Original Message----- From: Philipp Bliedung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 1:20 AM To: Kent West Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: help! can't start X anymore 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_bin ary-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_bi nary-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_upd ates_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 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]