>On Sunday 16 April 2006 21:49, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote: > > >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. > > > > > > -- > > Thanks to hints from various kind people here, I have now finally got X > running again. It seems you have to do a thorough reinstall of xorg and > then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. The other tricky bit is that if > xorg doesn't like your $HOME/.xinitrc it won't start. It doesn't tell > you why, it just fails silently. It took me the best part of a day to > work that one out.
... and I have no such file anywhere. It works now. Do I dare upgrade (and what--xserver-xorg will bring it some new stuff along with it but not all those libraries. The upgrade removes the xproxy and other stuff and does not replace them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
