Two weeks ago I successfully installed Wheezy (testing). Yesterday I did the latest upgrades, and now my X-Windows display is unreadable. Here are the details:
1. I called "apt-get upgrade", which listed 50 packages it was holding back. Most were xorg-related. I did not proceed with that upgrade but called "apt-get install" to install the 50 packages, and then "apt-get autoremove" as suggested. I then proceeded again with "apt-get upgrade", which installed many more packages, including a kernel upgrade from 2.6.32-5-686 to 2.6.38-2-686. I got an xorg warning for people running the ati module, which I was not. Another error warned about e100, which I am running. 2. Now I can I reboot into a text console, which is how I have things set up. At that point everything seems fine; the keyboard and sound both work. I have an internet connection, so I guess e100 is not a problem. 3. I then call startx, which tries to use fvwm to put up windows. Instead I get something resembling a display grossly out of sync. The same happens if I start gdm3 (gnome). However, there is a perfectly nice arrow icon for the mouse, and it responds to the mouse. The worst thing is that neither CTRL-ALT-F1 nor CTRL-ALT-Backscape lets me drop back to the console. I have to do a hardware reset and reboot (or do "sleep 30; reboot" in another console before I try startx). I just did a full backup of my healthy Wheezy disk this weekend. To my surprise, Xorg.0.log now is identical to the one from the good system, except for a date. It does seem that something more than X is screwed up, since the keyboard won't let me drop out of X. Since the mouse works (as well as "sleep; reboot"), the system hasn't totally crashed. Grub still offers me the chance to boot into 2.6.32, but that crashes with a screen full of kernel errors. I will report some lines seen on booting the new kernel, even though they may not underlie the display problem. Here they are: Starting rpcbind daemon...rpcbind: Cannot open '/var/run/rpcbind/rpcbind.xdr' file for reading, errno 2 (No such file or directory) CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...disabled, governor not available...done. saned disabled: edit /etc/default/saned SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin Finally, I will mention that I did all the same upgrades yesterday on another Wheezy system (different hardware) with no problem. I would welcome any suggestions for fixing this. I can post xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log if necessary, although that doesn't seem to be the problem. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20110413t022844-...@post.gmane.org
