Hi I recently (last week) upgraded from woody to sarge using aptitude. First off much to my surprise X windows appeared to survive the upgrade although my KDE was shot.
Removing and re-installing GDM (which I use to launch X) solved that problem. However over the following days it gradually became apparent to me that a ton of packages had been "held back" by aptitude -- including x-window-system and a ton of libraries. To try and solve this, this evening I did a U in aptitude interactively and then did an aptitude install to upgrade the held-back packages. This completed successfully. BUT -- now X is shot. If I try to start X either using GDM or startx, it starts up but then... my monitor goes into power saving mode!!! And nothing can get it to come out of it other than Ctrl-Alt-F1, login as root (without being able to see what I am doing) then shutdown -r now... Even Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc doesn't work... Now I'm going to try the lists' collective patience by not supply config files / logs etc. Unfortunately the only Linux mail program I have running at the moment runs under X...... So I am having to run this from Windows from where I can't see the Linux partitions (same machine...) I can tell you though that I didn't see anything in the XF86.log file in /var/log that looked odd, nor in ~/.xession-errors (no errors at all there, a couple of missing modules, specifically pex5 and xie, in the former). If I can figure out a way to get log files etc to this list I will do so. In the meantime let me know what would be useful. My XF86Config-4 hasn't changed with the upgrade. Does this problem sound familiar to anyone and can anyone suggest a solution. X was working perfectly before the upgrade. And after the upgrade but before I upgraded the held-back packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
