X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
G'day I upgraded one of my potato boxes to woody over the last two nights. I have encountered problems setting up X after the upgrade. After creating an XF86config, startx yields this error message: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link (Invalid argument) aborting I looked through

Re: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Keith Willoughby
Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did this, using ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 as root. I get a message stating that the file exists. You've got your parameters to ln backwards. If it helps, I do this all the time. -- Keith Willoughby Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be

Re: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:30:52AM +, Keith Willoughby wrote: Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did this, using ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 as root. I get a message stating that the file exists. You've got your parameters to ln backwards. If it helps, I do this all