etch upgrade problem
I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package
manager under Gnome. The package repositories all look for stable. I
selected the "normal" level of questions from the terminal interface.
It was going well, but now XScreenSaver activated and it does not accept
my password, so I can't get back to the ongoing update. Running Putty
from a nearby windows box does let me log in as that user, so PAM still
works. Directly logging in as root remotely (to my surprise, SSH
allowed this) and running "who" does show the user running Synaptic, but
how do I get back to the running instance of Synaptic?
I'm not sure what caused the problem, but I'm thinking of either the
change in graphics environment or my choosing to select the keyboard
rather than telling it not to touch the previous selection. If I select
"new login" at the screensaver prompt, that also fails trying to load
various font packages, so I can't determine if the keyboard map is
proper. If I hit the caps lock key, the screensaver does suggest I
check for caps lock, so the keyboard works at least a little.
Some additional info. Before the screensaver came on, I did notice a
long series of warnings concerning what looked like a failure to set the
three locale settings for PERL. These same warnings repeated for quite
a few packages. I think my settings were both US-English and UK-English
for language, locale_all unset and I forget the third variable. It's
all on the terminal display behind the screensaver :)
TIA.
--
Seth Goodman
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