[plug] missing X

Russell Steicke russells at plug.linux.org.au
Thu Jun 20 12:38:01 WST 2002


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:16:38PM +0800, Andre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a little trouble with starting X.  It seems that it fails due 
> to a missing file:
> 
>                 X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), 
> aborting.
> 
> Any idea on how this file is installed or generated?

On my debian woody box it's a symlink to /usr/X11R6/binXFree86.

# ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X

It was installed by the postinst script of xserver-xfree86.

russells at bobby:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ grep ln * |grep /etc/X11/X
xserver-svga.postinst:        ln -sf "$this_server" /etc/X11/X
xserver-xfree86.postinst:        ln -sf "$THIS_SERVER" /etc/X11/X
russells at bobby:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ 



> 
> 
> -Andre.
> 



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