I need to remove packages from proposed-updates. There were recently some changes made to several x packages that I installed last night. I wish I hadn't. Since upgrading, x has frozen nearly a half dozen times. I can restart gdm and recover and I've tried rebooting, but the problem still occurs. The problem has occured within just 5 minutes of restarting gdm, and seems to happen when the system is idle for a few minutes.
I followed instructions about using apt pinning to do this at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=432636 I'm running wheezy (not ubuntu, so I changed all references of fiesty to wheezy. However none of the packages get removed nor any installed whether I use aptitude or "apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade " Thanks. Here is the text from the link: You can use APT pinning to accomplish this (http://wiki.debian.org/AptPinning) Create file /etc/apt/preferences with contents Code: Package: * Pin: release a=feisty Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=feisty-updates Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: * Pin: release a=feisty-proposed Pin-Priority: -10 Priority over 1000 allows downgrading. This should make apt believe that packages from feisty and feisty-updates are newer. To simulate Code: sudo aptitude -s upgrade To perform the downgrade Code: sudo aptitude upgrade -- 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/1369752923.5322.10.ca...@fast.cercy.net
