I was running testing stably for over a year, but a standard apt-get
upgrade left things fairly messed up:
1. X won't start from startx, the tail of the X log says:
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 3 (No such file \
or directory)
Interestingly, if I start gdm (normally disabled) then X will start,
but weird things happen--I can only launch one instance of aterm,
on subsequent launches the window flashes open and then closes.
cdrtoaster froze on me (see below).
2. I constantly get these message in the console:
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
This seems very weird. I run at runlevel 2, have set gdm to start at
runlevel 3 so if I want it I can enter 'init 3', but these messages
start after boot before I log in, and when I do log in the runlevel is
2.
3. I tried to burn the Sarge net install CD with cdrtoaster while
running X with gdm as described above. cdrtoaster froze and I had to
kill the process, now my /dev/sg1 device file is gone.
4. On the "do something stupid if you don't know what you're doing"
theory, I upgraded to unstable last night. No change in any of the
above (well, I didn't really expect the device file to magically come
back). I was running unstable until Woody shipped, then switched to
testing, so this didn't feel like too much of a risk.
I'm off to school to burn a new CD, I'm basically ready to start over
with a clean install of Sarge, judiciously spiced with settings
preserved from /etc. But I'm open to repairing this system if not too
difficult. Any advice?
Regards, Paul
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