RC2 remastered: xinit: No such file or directory..

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Topic: RC2 remastered: xinit: No such file or directory..
started by: merrik

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Posted by merrik on Nov. 17 2005,17:10

Hi,

I had remastered RC2, installing some new packages from Debian stable (Sarge). As I supossed, this new packages corrupted DSL a bit.

Also, I had made, in DSL:

update-rc.d xserver remove

because I don't like DSL launchs automatically the X session.

Now, when i try to launch X from LiveCd (as user dsl), I get the following error message:

xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): no program named "//.xinitrc" in PATH

Do you know how can I solve it? I am not have a high knowelegment of Linux.

Thanks in advance.

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Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 18 2005,03:28

I'm not sure what update-rc.d does, but it was apparently not the right thing to do.

All you have to do to prevent auto-starting X in a remaster is to remove "startx" from /etc/skel/.bash_profile.

The error message itself looks wacky, though...couldn't say if it was due to your update-rc.d or something else.

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Posted by merrik on Nov. 18 2005,12:41

Thank you very much!!! You solved the problem.  

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