X server on lenny - broken after today's dist-upgrade
I am having a problem and I've only got a minimal xfce4 setup right
now, enough to press alt-f2 to run iceweasel. I've basically lost the
ability to start x into my normal KDE environment. I get some errors
on the controlling terminal - these error messages are strange to me.
startkde never gets to start; I get a blue screen with a mouse cursor,
and nothing more.
In desperation, I tried geting X back by doing a basic reinstall of
the xserver-xorg package but in turn seemingly lost nvidia - and now I
cannot install nvidia-glx. I had it running (from sid) up until now.
Most if not everything xserver-xorg is running from sid rather than
from lenny because at the time lenny did not have nvidia-kernel-source
or the proper revision of nvidia-glx.
When I attempt to install nvidia-glx I get unresolved dependencies
wanting nvidia-kernel-100.14.19, saying this is a virtual package. But
I want nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-kernel-common, right?
I have those two packages installed from sid's repository but still
can't get nvidia-glx (re)installed.
Also this setup as it is is difficult to get a cut/paste or a script
of the error(s) I get when I try and startx with my normal kde
install. But I remember errors along the line of bad font path element
- and unfortunately, nothing in /var/log/Xfree86 seems to be there
detailing these errors.
I'll probably follow up to this message in a little bit.
Meanwhile, X is at least *somewhat* usable but this partial xfce
environment I have (no taskbars, no panel, nothing but a gray screen
and alt-f2 to run an app) isn't wanting to be tried that much longer.
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