Re: painful accidental Xorg upgrade
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
did you add the new ones?
Section "Files"
# Per Xorg.
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/"
EndSection
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> Hello. I spent several hours this evening dealing with the
> consequences of an unintended Xorg upgrade, and I thought it might be
> worth reporting here in case others could learn from my experience.
>
> The upgrade was unintended only in the sense that all I really wanted
> to do was upgrade k3b:
>
> apt-get -u -t testing install k3b
>
> But that upgrade took out my xserver completely (without a warning
> that I saw at least) and so (obviously) X wouldn't start. When I
> realized what was wrong, I tried to fix that with:
>
> apt-get -u -t testing install xorg
>
> That done, when I tried to start X again, I ran into the same problem
> as had been reported as Bug #390772. I tracked that down through the
> Debian bug-reports database, and removed the line:
>
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
>
> which had been carried forward into the new xorg.conf.
>
> Even after this, though, X still wouldn't start. It complained:
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> After a lot of messing around, I managed to fix this by hand-editing
> xorg.conf and adding to it, essentially, the contents of the directory
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/ (in the "Files" section)---information which had
> somehow not made it into the auto-generated xorg.conf.
>
> The next problem was that gdeskcal (a little app that I'm fond of)
> wouldn't start, complaining about a missing gtk module. 15 or 20
> minutes spent googling led to the solution for that problem---install
> python-gtk2 (though that was not a dependency on the gdeskcal package).
>
> So three or so hours later, I have a system that works nearly as well
> as it did before I accidentally `upgraded' it. Hmmmmmm ...
>
> Jim
>
>
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