Author Topic: Startx Lost After "ipkg Update / Update (Read 3810 times)

Martin · « **on:** January 25, 2005, 03:17:27 pm »

Hi all :-(

UPPPS :-( ... any others got error after "ipkg update / upgrade" ... reboot ... could not "startx" ... saying "-bash: startx: command not found"

not really sure which packages have been upgraded ...

crying ... where is it gone ...

Thanks
Martin

pgas · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2005, 02:02:17 am »

hmm,

Are you logged in as root?

Is there a startx in /usr/X11R6/bin?
(ls -al /usr/X11R6/bin)

maybe only PATH has been compromised?

Martin · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2005, 06:52:35 am »

Hi pgas,

Thanks ... I search for "startx" but it is missing ... really sad about it ... some ipkg upgrade must have removed it :-( ... searching again for it with "startx*" it found startx.old ... *ups* who did this ?

starting it everything works ... I hope ... renaming it to startx :-)

Happy again ... not really because of this stupid little error ...

THANKS
Martin

----------------------------------
zaurus ~ $ pwd
/home/root
zaurus ~ $ find / -name "startx*"
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx.old
zaurus ~ $ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/startx.old
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4410 Jan 1 1970 /usr/X11R6/bin/startx.old
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JedTheHead · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2005, 09:57:31 pm »

xinit works fine too. I noticed the same thing after upgrading tonite.

scoutme · « **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2005, 03:21:07 am »

startx has been moved to startx.old

the question is: why?

..the question is: what is a mahnamanha?
..the question is: who cares?

.....sorry.. a little digression

pgas · « **Reply #5 on:** January 27, 2005, 12:54:15 pm »

hmm, what update are you talking about, I tried an ipkg update, everything is up to date, I haven't done this since this post of Laze:this post of Laze

In this post he instruct to stop X before calling ipkg upgrade from the command line.

If have you run upgrade from X, then the package manager may had some problems to modify files in use.

(OK I admit that these upgrade instructions should perhaps be more visible and be on the pdaxrom.org page)

iamasmith · « **Reply #6 on:** January 27, 2005, 01:46:47 pm »

Quote

In this post he instruct to stop X before calling ipkg upgrade from the command line.

I just did this from the command prompt and it hozed my startx too. Also blew away my wlan settings but that was easily fixed when I got X running again.

pgas · « **Reply #7 on:** January 27, 2005, 01:56:49 pm »

hmm, I don't understand why my package are all up to date. I did

********** EDIT **********

ok, I solved my mystery, I didn't bother to set the correct date/time after a reboot, and
the date was 16 Jan, which prevent ipkg to see update ( why i don't know).

After setting my date correctly, it did upgrade the packages, with the pbs.

Laze · « **Reply #8 on:** January 27, 2005, 02:26:32 pm »

We updated the ipkg feed recently - both it looks like there might be some problems related to it - we are looking into it right now..

Foxdie · « **Reply #9 on:** January 27, 2005, 03:06:32 pm »

It's hosed my X and my wlan settings AND my wlan access altogether. cardctl ident reports a card but it's not working as a wifi card anymore. Ergo I'm left without a useful Z

dodge · « **Reply #10 on:** January 31, 2005, 07:49:36 am »

Hi,

I have a same problem as you.

Can anybody write me, what exactly have I to write into wireless.opts ?
I have ASUS WL-110
product info: "ASUS" , "802_11B_CF_CARD_25", "Version 01.00", ""

I can start X, but I can not run Wifi-lan setting in GUI.

Thanks

Jan

SL-860

Foxdie · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2005, 01:18:39 am »

I managed to get my wifi working again simply by running the wifi-lan GUI and setting the default mode as WiFi and saving the profile. If you can't even run the GUI then I don't know how you'll go about doing it. Sorry.

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