Re: wheezy after update significant slow

[S Scharf <ss11223@gmail.com>]

Hi

After having the xorg problem I downgrade the X in this way.

1_ Add the next debian snapshot repository to the sources.list: deb
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110924/ wheezy main
contrib non-free

2_ Update the repositories, I got the next error: Release file for
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110924/dists/wheezy/InRelease
is expired
       To avoid it, I had to update the repositories with this
command: aptitude -o 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false' update

3_ Downgrade xserver-xorg-core telling the version: aptitude install
xserver-xorg-core=2:1.10.4-1. Aptitude will complaint because some
xserver-xorg-input and video will be broken. Tell aptitude to fix the
situation, after some fix proposals you will arrive to a proposal
where Aptitude will downgrade all the dependencies, accept it.

4_ Lock the downgrade, in my case:  aptitude hold xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-vesa
xserver-xorg-video-vmware


Regards,

Alberto

Thanks, although by the time I got this I had already picked through my apt log and found the
34 or so files I needed to revert and having those deb's handy just loaded them and pined the result.

The only remaining question is how to know when it is safe to allow xserver to uprade again?

Stuart