Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!
I saw the same thing this morning. I also noticed that it is going
to 4.0.2 :) It should rock once I get it to work. On a releated
note does anyone know of where one could maybe get .debs of the
Nvidia drivers and if not any advice from anyone who has installed
them? Thanks much.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Rob VanFleet <rvf@linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:10:39 -0600
>On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:03:59PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> On 29 Jan 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote:
>> > I just managed to make it through the X upgrade in testing,
so I might
>> > be able to help you prevent a downgrade to Potato (which is
probably
>> > more of a pain than fixing X). What sort of problems are you
having? I
>> > noticed that the upgrade doesn't get all the packages one
needs, so you
>> > need to apt-get them on your own.
>> >
>> > -ROb
>> >
>[ private correspondence omitted ]
>
>startx was missing for me as well. You need to get the
'xbase-clients'
>package. You might also want to install xfonts-base,
xfonts-75dpi, and
>xfonts-100dpi as they were all missing from my upgrade. Without
>xfonts-base, X will refuse to start.
>
>HTH
>
>-Rob
>
>
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