Hi,

I have just done an apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade from debian stable (sarge) to unstable.

I did this by just changing my sources.list file from

stable main

to

unstable main non-free contrib

then doing apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade.

Question 1: is this the correct way of doing it?

It all seemed to upgrade nicely.
However after it finished and i rebotted it, X wouldn't start.
if i login and run startx i get the error '/etc/X11/X is not executable'.

This is because it is a link to /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 which doesn't exist anymore.


Question 2: Where did it go, and what can I do to fix this.


Any help very much appreciated

Thanks
Barkers

Wow, that is a big jump right now. Sid has some major stuff that just came in including the migration to xorg from xfree. You could perhaps start with apt-get install xserver-xorg and see what other that brings in - might get you on the way

yeah I think the problem is related related to xorg change over.

I have xserver-xorg installed.
I have done a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

And have got a little bit further. But now its is failing to start saying it cant find my mouse.
Cant find /dev/input/mice no such device.

Can I rollback to stable by changing my source list again, and doing another dist-upgrade? or will this cause more problems?

Yay! fixed it.

For future reference.


My initial problem was that I had selected to use xserver-xfree86 instead of xserver-xorg during the configuration of xserver-xorg.

The xserver-xfree86 doesn't appear to really work at all.
Second my problem was that xorg didn't like my mouse, despite it being set up correctly as /dev/input/mice.
This was fixed temporarily with a modprobe mousedev.
I added mousedev to /etc/modules.

Hot-diggedy dog! its fixed.

Thanks 4 your help.