[Techtalk] killed my xserver

Maria McKinley maria at shadlen.org
Fri Dec 7 16:43:32 UTC 2007


Patricia Fraser wrote:
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> Hi Maria,
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>> I upgraded (some packages, not the kernel), and now I can't run
>> X. :-( I am running Debian stable, Linux version 2.6.8-2-k7. I have
>> tried to re-configure XF86Config-4 with the exact specs of my
>> monitor, but this didn't help. I can't find anything useful in the
>> logs either. Nothing marked error. The only clue is that if I try to
>> do startx (instead of starting it with gdm), I get this message in
>> XFree86.0.log
>>
>> AUDIT: Fri Dec  7 00:43:40 2007: 4399 X: client 5 rejected from local
>> host
> 
> Did you try dpkg-reconfigure? 
> 
> Cheers,
> 

I did, but it didn't help. :-(


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