Re: Think I've messed up X :(
On March 15, 2004 06:48, Andrew Ingram wrote:
> Last week, when I did an apt-get update (I'm on Sid btw), I was told
> that:
>
> The following packages have been kept back:
> x-window-system-core xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev
>
> Now, normally when I see that, I do an apt-get install of the
> packages so that apt then tells me it can't install them because of
> certain dependencies, which out of curiosity I like to know. This
> time however, the upgrade went ahead to my horror. I ctrl-c'd out but
> it was too late, the damage had been done. Things seemed to be going
> ok since then but today's upgrade required me to downgrade libxft2 to
> 2.1.2-5 in order to go through. But I've noticed I'm now stating to
> have all kinds of nasty stuff happening with fonts (ie not showing
> any text at all) and windows are appearing with hardly any height,
> but massive width (again, no text). Opening Konqueror for example
> shows no menu bar, just some horizontal black lines and there is no
> text anywhere. Kate just crashes, etc.
>
> I am a bit too scared to do a reboot as I have a feeling it will only
> make things worse. Is there a way out of this? In order to get into
> this mess, I did:
> apt-get install xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu
> xlibmesa-glu-dev
> which removed:
> xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu
>
> I'd really appreciate some help as I dont fancy having to re-install
> X/KDE from scratch.
Fix the installation of libxft2 and libxft-dev as described in my
message a few minutes ago. Reinstall the removed and downgraded
packages with: apt-get -t unstable install <packagenames>.
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