On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:48:27PM -0600, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my video > card; 3.3.2.1 does not. This means that my X display is now > (mal)functioning at 320x200 -- I can see the lower right quadrant of an > xterm. The machine was also set to start xdm on boot; coming in with a > rescue floppy was the only way I could figure out to get it to boot and > give a text terminal (I did not have the boot scripts start xdm before). I seriously doubt you got "downgraded" to 3.3.2.1. For one thing, XFree86 3.3.2.1 did not ship with slink. XFree86 3.3.2.3 did. Also, XFree86 3.3.3 did not ship with hamm. What probably happened is that you installed XFree86 3.3.3 in a manner that bypassed the Debian packaging system, and did not use the "equivs" package, or "dpkg-divert", or some other Debian-supported tool, to let the packaging system know that you had done it. There is not a reasonable way to determine whether or not a user has bypassed the packaging system without telling it. One (very poor) solution would be to ship pre-calculated md5sums of every file that ships with a given package, and check each each and every one against md5sums of the actual installed files at upgrade time. For packages the size of X, you would be very, very unhappy with this approach. So, dpkg either thought you didn't have X installed at all, or thought you had an older version installed (maybe the one that came with hamm). So as far as it new, there was a newer version of XFree86 available than you had installed. As for the xdm situation, this has been covered, covered, and covered again. Did you read the Release Notes for slink? Perhaps not. But... Does this prompt look familar? The xbase package is obsolete and may be removed (with "dpkg --remove xbase"). If you are upgrading from Debian 2.0 or earlier, you should read the /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian file. Read this file now? (y/n) [y] Perhaps not, or perhaps you ignored it. Here is some of the information from that README file. Important things to note: 1) Now that it has been upgraded, the xbase package should be removed as soon as is convenient. Leaving it in place will make it necessary to use the "--force-depends" option to dpkg to remove any package that xbase depends on (like xdm and xfs, see below.) dpkg --remove xbase 2) xdm and xfs (among other programs) are now in their own packages. They will start automatically on boot if they are installed. If you do not desire this, remove the packages before your next reboot. dpkg --remove xdm dpkg --remove xfs -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous enemies Debian GNU/Linux | of truth than lies. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Friedrich Nietzsche cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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