On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly > incompetent klutz might be able to blunder thru a huge bout of ripping > out kde and most of X then moving from testing to stable, and finally > installing lxde and enough of xorg stuff to make it work, without all > that much trouble.
Harry, this move from testing to stable has me perplexed. How did you accomplish that? Can you please post your /etc/apt/sources.list, the content of /etc/debian_version, the output of "uname -a" and the versions of the following packages? * coreutils (stable is at 8.5-1) * base-files (stable is at 6.0squeeze5) * bash (stable is at 4.1-3) * dpkg (stable is at 1.15.8.12) * apt (stable is at 0.8.10.3+squeeze1) You can check these with: harry@debian:~$ dpkg -l $package_name A downgrade of the operating system to a prior release (in this case, from testing to stable, or from wheezy to squeeze) is really not supported by the package management system. The above files, commands, and package versions look at some key operating system version information and core package versions and will give a good indication as to whether or not you're actually back on stable. I just can't shake the feeling you're now running some sort of frankenstein combination of testing and stable. -- Chris -- 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/CAOEVnYuON+BUQQJwf5q5XUFyOG5j+=thaqspyqkhxby6asa...@mail.gmail.com
