Help to start X

[Eduard Bonet]

2007/5/24, Terence Simpson <stdin at stdin.me.uk>:
>
> Earl Violet wrote:
> > --- Eduard Bonet <bonedu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> Can anyone give me a hint on what to do, please?
> >>
> >  Maybe try
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> >
> > as a start.  This should reset X
> >
> > Earl
> >
> >
> That should help, but the error that drew my attention is:
> /usr/bin/startx: line 169: /dev/null: Permission denied
>
> It seems that the file /dev/null isn't writeable to your use, it needs
> to be.


Thanks for your help. After trying sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
and other options with no success i decided to reinstall the system again.
Now i have reminded  what happened: electricity supply was stopped while the
computer was doing a 500 mb update.
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