>On Sunday 16 April 2006 19:07, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > > Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling > > equivalents. There is also a list of new hardware oriented modules to > > come in. What is safe to upgrade at this point or should on wait on this. > > > > Please CC off-list since I still do not get digests! > > Definitely don't! It worked the first time but next day everything went > wrong. I can now get X to load but it won't read my xinitrc file and > icewm won't load so it's useless - total disaster. > > In desperation I installed testing on a spare partition but that didn't > help either because whenever I tried to install any package I got a > message about e2fsprogs (can't remember the details) which was blocking > all installs. Google (on a different machine, still working) produced a > lot of stuff about this but no solutions that I could understand. > > Currently I'm feeling pretty despondent about things. Perhaps I shall > have to install Stable to get a working X. > > Anthony
Figured as much. Yes, Sid is unstable, but posting half done stuff is really not "fair" to the Debian community. I am compiling kde myself because of the mess that was--maybe I'll go back to debian packages for kde4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
