Updated Squeeze, X won't start

[Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>]

This morning, I found my Squeeze system totally frozen. Well, that's false,
it would display the X screen (icewm as wm), but changing to a different
desktop failed, I couldn't scroll or make any buttons react to the mouse,
etc.

I could use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to reach a VT, but that also ignored the keyboard.

I switched back to X with Alt-F7 and pressed Ctrl-Backspace, but this only
had the effect of freezing the mouse pointer.

So I power-cycled.  After that, X came up, but I once more used Ctrl-Alt-F1
and from the VT, did apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.  59 updates
later, I now find that X won't start.  Here's a capture when I try using
startx:

Script started on Sun 12 Apr 2009 12:22:00 PM EDT
xset:  unable to open display ""
carlf@NewPicking:~$ startx&
[1] 3381
carlf@NewPicking:~$ 

X.Org X Server 1.4.2
Release Date: 11 June 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-11)
Current Operating System: Linux NewPicking 2.6.22 #1 SMP Sat Jan 5 14:18:25 EST 2008 i686
Build Date: 20 February 2009  03:06:29AM
 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Apr 12 12:22:03 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "via" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

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

[1]+  Done                    startx
carlf@NewPicking:~$ exit

Script done on Sun 12 Apr 2009 12:22:12 PM EDT

So is this a temporary problem that the X developers will quickly fix? 
Something I can fix easily?  Gremlins?

Thanks.
-- 
Carl Fink                                 carl@finknetwork.com
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
        -Bruce Tognazzini