Bug#602797: upgrade-reports: problems with aptitude, apt-listchanges, php-net-smtp (php-pear), casper (obsolete), junior-games-gl and xserver-xorg-video-ati

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov  8, 2010 at 22:55:07 +0100, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba wrote:

> Hola Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
> el Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:18:10 -0800 escribiste:
> 
> > > The only one post-upgrade issue I have find so far is that some
> > > xserver-xorg-video-* had been removed, and the X server refused to
> > > start. Installing xserver-xorg-video-ati solved the problem.
> > 
> > That in particular is of concern.  Could you please post a log of this
> > upgrade (from /var/log/apt/term.log, maybe), so that we can see why these
> > drivers were removed?
> 
> I think the old system used the radeon driver. I've been looking at the logs
> but don't see why the X server broke. I attach the logs.
> 
The removed drivers seem fine, from your log, they're obsolete and not
available in squeeze (cyrix, imstt, i810).  Xorg's autoconfiguration in
lenny and squeeze uses a different mechanism for picking a driver, and
the new one chooses the ati wrapper, which you didn't seem to have
installed.  It's better to have xserver-xorg-video-all installed to
avoid issues like this.

Cheers,
Julien

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