On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:38:16PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: | | Following an update from a working "stable" Debian installation, | to "unstable" (from an Australian mirror), running startx elicited: | | X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory) | | Trying: strings /usr/bin/X11/X | grep X | more | shows "/etc/X11/X" appears in the executable. | | The update had blown away startx, necessitating an apt-get | in order to get onto first base. | | I'm now in a quandary: Did the update blow away more than just | a little, necessitating a re-installation from CD?
ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X /etc/X11/X su root -c 'ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X' startx -D
