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Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

Marc Shapiro wrote:

I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having.

My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU.

This is what I have done:
changed my etc/apt/sources.list to point to Lenny
ran aptitude update
ran aptitude install dpkg apt aptitude
ran aptitude safe-upgrade
   I had to run this several times before it completed without
   errors and showed no packages still to be upgraded
ran aptitude full-upgrade
   had to uninstall wine and sane to get this to run without errors

ran startx
   got the following errors:

(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
Emulator asked to make a suspect byte access to port 4 (0x0004); terminating.

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80c91ce]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(x_outb+0x57) [0xb7b21f17]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so [0xb7b291d4]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(X86EMU_exec+0xab) [0xb7b3871b]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so(xf86ExecX86int10+0x55) [0xb7b2ece5]
6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvbe.so(VBESaveRestore+0xb5) [0xb7f2ece5]
7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xb7b17a8f]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//vesa_drv.so [0xb7b1866e]
9: /usr/bin/X(AddScreen+0x1f7) [ox8073db7]
10: /usr/bin/X(InitOutput+0x236) [0x8073db7]
11: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2b1) [0x8074591]
12: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7cec455]
13: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x21d) [0x8073a81]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

giving up.
xinit:  Connection reset by peer (errno 104):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.


Any help in getting X to run will be greatly appreciated.  I am hoping that this is just a question of a manual config change, but I don't know enough about X configs to know where to start.

Is there a known current problem with wine and sane?  Wine is probably not much of an issue, but without sane my scanner is not going to function.
OK. I can now get into X. Why worry about manually reconfiguring xserver-xorg when I can use dpkg-reconfigure, as it says in the comments at the top of the xorg.conf file, which I should have read first.
But now I have another X problem. If I try to use Ctl-Alt-F1 (or any Fn key) to switch to a virtual console, then X dies. This is a big problem since my wife, my daughter and I are always logged onto this computer and we each have X sessions on separate vts. I use vt07, my wife is on vt08 and my daughter is on vt09. This way we can each have our own configuration, files, etc. and it only take a single key combination to switch between them. 

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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com
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