On 16 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Apr 2006, Bradley Alexander wrote: > > I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop > > running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx > > drivers. > > > > Both upgrades failed miserably. > > > > On the nVidia workstation, it gives me the following: > > > > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > > libglu1-xorg-dev (due to efl-all) > > 368 upgraded, 85 newly installed, 32 to remove and 11 not upgraded. > > Need to get 301MB/309MB of archives. > > After unpacking 52.7MB disk space will be freed. > > You are about to do something potentially harmful. > > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' > > ?] > > > > On the fglrx laptop, it attempts to remove fglrx-driver, but can't find > > a diversion to replace /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2. > > > > Whats the best upgrade path for both of these boxes? > > > > Thanks, > > --b > > Don't do it at all. I've now lost X after an upgrade; after 2 days work > it just loads but I can't use it because my window manager won't come up > properly. In desperation I tried to install testing on a spare partition > but that was no good either because it won't install any packages at all > - something about e2fsprogs needing to be removed temporarily. > > I'm beginning to think I shall have to go back to stable to get a > working system. > I was a bit excessive here, after spending two days getting the thing to work. Thanks to various kind people here who have made useful suggestions I did get it running again and I suppose it was a learning experience, but quite a tough one.
One thing to notice after you've installed and configured xorg; if it doesn't like your $HOME/.xinitrc it won't start. It just silently refuses and sulks. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
