Help - apt-get upgrade and startx does not work!!

If you filled up a partition with the upgrade, this would be
the result. Boot up Knoppix/BBC/etc and check your df.

Rick

----- Original Message Follows -----
>
> Austin,
>
> Thanks for your fast response!
>
> Yes, startx does not work. I start it, the screen goes
> black, then the cross-hatch pattern appears then the
> screen goes back to the terminal mode with a message
> saying the X server was stopped.
>
> I don't know if I use kdm. I am using KDE, and that was
> working before I did apt-get upgrade.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Mark Phillips
> Phillips Marketing, Inc.
> 602 524-0376 office
> 480 945-9197 fax
> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On
> Behalf Of Austin Godber
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Help - apt-get upgrade and startx does not
> work!!
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I ran apt-get update, then upgrade, then dist-upgrade
> > and now startx will not work.
> >
> > I got the following error at the end of apt-get upgrade:
> >
> > Setting up xdm (4.3.0-2).
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.config line 645 "kdm" to "xdm":
> command not found
> >
> > dpkg: error processing xdm (-- configure) subprcess
> > post-installation script returned error exit status 127
> >
> > Everything was running OK before I did this update and
> upgrade. I looked
> > at line 645 in /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.config, but there
> > are not references to "kdm" or "xdm" on that line. Line
> 645 is the last line in
> > the script, so I think the error is occurring somewhere
> else and this is
> > some sort of exit point from the script???
> >
> > Is there a way to back out all the changes and return to
> > my previous configuration before I ran apt-get update??
> >
> > I need help to fix this problem. I have a project that I
> need to work on
> > and it is being help hostage by xdm!!
>
> First a word of caution. Don't use apt-get dist-upgrade
> unless you are really upgrading from one distribution
> level to another.
>
> Maybe its complaining that KDM isn't installed?
>
> Have you tried startx and that doesn't work?
>
> Do you even use XDM?
>
> Austin
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