Re: X-windows hosed! Solved
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 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.
It worked after I removed the offending files I did option to install
the package maintainers version of all the new .deb configuration
files. Only thing is now the menus don't work properly..
>
> 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))
I don't remember now, for some reason it wouldn't work and I was in a
try anything mode. It seems I have to have a certain amount of
frustration in my life.
thanks for your help!
dale
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