[Breezy] X won't start, following today's update ?

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Jul 4 15:54:27 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:39:56AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> They definitely broke a symlink: if you look at
> /usr/bin/X11, you get
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 2005-07-04 00:12 /usr/bin/X11 -> /usr/bin
> 
> So that's bad. I'm not sure why, but I'm running X just fine
> even with that broken symlink.

Um no, it's absolutely intentional.  And that's how it is in my machine,
where /etc/X11/X is most definitely executable.

> More serious was that the /usr/X11R6/bin/X symlink was
> broken. When I manually relinked it to Xorg-debug (in the
> same directory) everything worked fine.

Right, that's bad.  Are you still on xserver-xorg (or -dbg) 6.8.2-33 or
below?




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