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

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:50:50PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:20:32PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > Ah so. All fixed. Thanks, Daniel.
> 
> Hm. I rebooted, and got an error when GDM was supposed to
> start, saying that /etc/X11/X wasn't executable. I looked at
> it, and it was a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg-debug. The
> latter no longer exists, even though the package is
> installed:
> 
> xserver-xorg-dbg				install
> 
> So I have a couple questions:
> 
> 1) What happened to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg-debug? Even doing a
> 'which Xorg-debug' brings up nothing.

/usr/bin/X11 is now just a symlink to /usr/bin.  I forgot the Xorg-debug
symlink, but xserver-xorg-dbg 6.8.2-35 will have it.

> 2) I suspect that the xorg installer didn't overwrite
> /etc/X11/X with its own new symlink because I had manually
> set that to symlink to Xorg-debug during an earlier problem
> getting X to run. So from now on, even when files change,
> will that symlink stay unchanged? I sometimes see during
> installation that dpkg has left various xorg files unchanged
> because I customized them; I'd like to tell dpkg, "No, go
> ahead and change them." Is there any way to do this?

I think sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg-dbg will do this.