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Re: [PLUG] the Lack of GUI Blues
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This help?
http://www.uniqsys.com/pipermail/talug/2002-November/001796.html
As far as error #2...So I take it that you have an ATI card not a NVIDIA?
Jon
jeff said:
> So I'm minding my own business, Debian sid-ing my way through life when it
> comes time to reboot. It's been *months*, unlike my boxes that run
> another system. Oops - I'm suffering from a blown GUI. As nice as that
> could possibly sound, my email's in Evolution so it would be kinda nice to
> have it back.
>
> I've been all over the web, Googling error messages, with absolutely no
> success. I have removed KDE, Xfree86, KDM, and anything else that looked
> remotely related, with largely the same result - a stunning lack of GUI
> (yes, I reinstalled the packages after purging). There was no obvious
> precipitating event or installation.
>
> The first error messages seemed to deal with fonts, almost as if it were a
> path problem or the fonts all packed up and ran away overnight. The
> current ones look like this:
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file
> or directory
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot
> execute: No such file or directory.
>
> It seems like maybe a funky config file is being retained, but I'd think
> that would go away with reinstallation of the packages. I've spent *way
> too much* time on this, which would normally be an interesting activity.
> Short of slash/burn/reinstall (which I'm rapidly approaching), can anyone
> lend some expertise?
>
>
> Grassy Ass,
> Jeff
>
>
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