Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

[Greg Horn <gregmainland@gmail.com>]

Hi Paul,

It might be helpful if you mention how far you can get. For instance, are you stuck in X11 with no screen, or do you know how to log into your system through the linux console by pressing ctrl-alt-F3 (or F4, F5...)? Did you try a previous kernel from the grub boot menu?

Best,

Greg

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> wrote:

I like to do my packaging under sid, because
that is where the packages will first have to run, so
I can test them there.

But what do you do when your sid system stop work
after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade? X11 stopped working
no screens found.

Of course I filed a bug.

But is there some kind of work around that will let you
keep working somehow?

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