Re: Disaster: apt-get upgrade broke X!
Noticed I forgot to mention the other bit of advice. You might
just give it a few hours (all my machines are at work so I have to
wait to go home and fix my home box) and then do a apt-get
dist-upgrade again. I'm sure the developers are fixing this even
as we speak. BTW thanks for the list of packages.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Ray Percival" <squadboy@mail.sisna.com>
Reply-To: <squadboy@mail.sisna.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:52:28 -0700
>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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