Multiple X Servers?!?!?!?

[Anton Markov]

Paul King wrote:
>> if 
>>that doesn't help, 'dpkg -P gdm; apt-get install gdm', which will 
>>reinstall gdm and re-create all the configuration files / scripts. (You 
>>may want to back up '/etc/gdm' first). I am not sure if there is a more 
>>"proper" way to do this in Debian.
> 
> 
> Because this is the result of an upgrade of a package (which then asked if I 
> wanted to install over 400 packages), I am wondering if something got upgraded 
> that shouldn't. Either I now have to do a dist-upgrade, or somehow roll back my 
> install to the last stable version.

This is a very likely possability. I would try to keep all the X 
packages the same version (xserver-xfree86, xbase-clients, etc.). If you 
don't want to do a full dist-upgrade, go into a tool like 'aptitude' or 
maybe 'synaptic' and make sure that all the packaged you have installed 
under the X11/main section are marked for upgrade.

I seem to recall having some problem with gdm a while back when I was 
running a mixed testing/unstable system, although startx worked fine. Un 
upgrade to unstable fixed it for me (although that's probably not what 
you should do).

> 
> 
>>Using 'startx' directly works fine, right?
> 
> 
> X as a command works and appers stable (you get the stippled blank desktop with 
> mouse). Using either startx or xinit crashes right away, falling back to the 
> command line. I checked those scripts, and there is more stuff than I'm used to 
> seeing in there.

Sounds like one of the XFree86 packages are messed up. For example, both 
'startx' and 'xinit' are part of the 'xbase-clients' package. Perhaps 
you should upgrade it to the sarge version if you had not done so already.

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