Bad Xorg symbolic link in Breezy

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu May 26 01:05:35 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:08:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> X died on me and won't restart.  I see that /etc/X11/X is a symlink to 
> /usr/bin/X11/Xorg, which is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg.  However, 
> in the latest Breezy xserver-xorg (6.8.2-20), /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg is not 
> an executable, but is a symlink to itself!  Thus there is no server.

Um, in -20, /usr/bin/X11/Xorg is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg.

Unless, of course, you attempted to repair the damage by making
/usr/bin/X11 a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin somehow, in which case you get
to keep both pieces.
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