Re: X-windows hosed!
Dale Morris wrote:
>
> Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent
> reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows.
> Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to get true type fonts
> working a while back and had problems with XF86Config. So I went to
> the XFree86 download site and ran ./install -check script and
> downloaded and installed all the necessary files to upgrade me to
> 4.0.3. Everything worked fine until today when I tried to upgrade
> (have done so successfully in the past) and apt tried to install
> XServer and Xserver-svga and numerous other Xpackages I don't
> remember. Then it exited with an error. I tried removing (didn't work)
> Xwindows and installing x-window-system (didn't work) and ended up
> with lots of error messages. Any way out of this short of a reinstall?
well, check the error messages.
if that doesn't help, post the most important ones (usually the first
ones) and other relevant info here.
also - how did you try to remove it? (there might be some more
'forceful' commands than the ones you used)
btw why would you run install scripts from XFree86 download site? The
X 4.x is in debian and you can use the ttf straight out of the box
(don't even need the font server (if you don't want to serve fonts for
other machines))
erik
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