Re: Security update 2008.007 breaks X
Re: Security update 2008.007 breaks X
- Subject: Re: Security update 2008.007 breaks X
- From: Joseph Sullivan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:58:14 -0700
> Thanks to everyone who replied --- the problem was a bit of stupidity
> on my part. I keep my dotfiles in CVS and have a shell script to
> populate a new homedir with them. To make a long story short, a
> couple of weeks ago I was updating that script, which had bitrotted,
> and tested it by running it on my MacBook's homedir. One piece of
> bitrot I didn't catch was that it installed an outdated .xinitrc,
> which hasn't worked since the switch to x.org. Two weeks later I
> take updates and reboot, and when X won't start I've forgotten all
> about having re-created my homedir's dotfiles.
>
> Mea culpa.
>
> ---Alex
If it's any consolation to your troubles, your original question got me
looking at my own console.log and I cleaned up a few errors in my .xinitrc.
So thanks! We're all winners today. ;)
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