On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:34:52PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote:
> Woody or Sid is already 2.4 ready, as they're always updated
> regularly (with Sid the most number of iterations -- weekly if
> I'm not mistaken).
Daily. New packages are installed on the master archive at around 8pm
UTC each day, an
Oki DZ wrote:
>I see.
>I can see the source of my confusion, I believe. I always use >unstable; when
>Potato was unstable, that was the one I used. Then >Potato become stable, but
>I didn't change the sources.list (still >pointed to unstable).
>Then I did apt-get dist-upgrade. So, inadvertently
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Paolo Falcone wrote:
> A normal apt-get dist-upgrade without modifying /etc/apt/sources.list
> would upgrade your release to the next Debian release (ex. if you're
> using 2.2r3 and do a dist-upgrade, you'll get 2.2r4).
I see.
I can see the source of my confusion, I believe.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:28:25PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> I believe that I've been using Potato; at least, I did an apt-get
> dist-upgrade on it (on my system).
> Anyway, what is the right sequence?
> Potato - Sid - Woody?
> Sid - Potato - Woody?
> or
> Potato - Woody - Sid?
A normal apt-get dis
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:28:25PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> I believe that I've been using Potato; at least, I did an apt-get
> dist-upgrade on it (on my system).
>
> Anyway, what is the right sequence?
> Potato - Sid - Woody?
> Sid - Potato - Woody?
> or
> Potato - Woody - Sid?
The last one is the
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
> I start X using /etc/init.d/gdm start. The screen blinks for a bit, then it
> stops, then it blinks for a bit more, then it stops, then it does it again.
You didn't tell that it stopped eventually by itself.
How did you stop it?
> I assume it's trying the thr
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote:
> It sounds like you've just been unstable for a long long time, which
> would mean Potato and Woody packages would've at one time been installed
> on your system, but that you've been using Sid the whole time :).
I believe that I've been using
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:41:03AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> Long ago, I used unstable, which was potato.
> Now, I use unstable, and I thought it was potato.
That sounds a bit like a koan :).
> I guess, now I'm using a potato system with woody's apps. Correct?
It sounds like you've just been unsta
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote:
> Potato uses version 3 X servers; Woody and unstable support both the
> version 3 X servers and the shiny and new version 4 one.
Long ago, I used unstable, which was potato.
Now, I use unstable, and I thought it was potato.
I guess, now I'm u
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:21:23AM -0800, jennyw wrote:
> > Anyway, the first thing you should do is try to apt-get remove (or
> > dpkg --purge, if you're feeling vindictive and don't mind handling
>
> I just tried this; same results as before.
We need to know what these results were! :) xserver-
Thanks to everyone!
Yep, packages that should have been present were missing. In particular,
xbase-clients (which contains startx, which was indeed missing) and
xfonts-base as folks suggested. Are these kinds of problems common in
upgrading to Woody? Donald mentioned that he'd seen xfonts-base m
"jennyw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>--snip--<
> > Anyway, the first thing you should do is try to apt-get remove (or
> > dpkg --purge, if you're feeling vindictive and don't mind handling
>
> I just tried this; same results as before.
>
> > Also: when you say "X won't load", what do you mean? D
One pitfall of transfering from XFree3.* to XFree4.* is that the config file is
now: "\etc\X11\XF86Config-4" instead of "\etc\X11\XF86Config".
You might want to make sure that you configuration is save as the right file.
Good luck.
Pan
%% jennyw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
j> By the way, my system apparently has no startx.
It sounds to me like your system is missing some very important
packages. There's no way you should be missing startx! That's a
fundamental script and it's in xbase-clients, which pretty much every X
inst
I also blew away my X setup when I upgraded from potato to woody so I know
how it feels. Here's some information I determined in the course of
fixing things:
Under potato you were using XFree86 release 3.3.+. Woody prefers to use
XFree86 release 4.0+. You can still use XFree release 3.3 in wood
> I start X using /etc/init.d/gdm start. The screen blinks for a bit,
> then it stops, then it blinks for a bit more, then it stops, then it
> does it again. I assume it's trying the three video modes (640x480,
> 800x600 and 1024x768) that I selected, and is finding that none of them
> works. By t
From: "Andrew Sione Taumoefolau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> so there's not reason not to :). How did it complain about missing
> xserver-mach64?
I didn't write down the exact message; I just remember it saying that it was
missing. Sorry! Next time I'll do better ...
> Anyway, the first thing you shou
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:49:47PM -0800, jennyw wrote:
> I just tried to upgrade a Potato installation to Woody. A lot of things went
> wrong (details at the end of the message) but the main problem now is that X
> doesn't work. At one point in time while doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" the
> instal
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:08:21AM -0800, jennyw wrote:
> > doesn't work. At one point in time while doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" the
> > installer strongly suggested installing xserver-xfree86 instead of using
> > older xservers (I was using mach64 previously). Then it was unable to
> > continue.
w" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:49 PM
Subject: Help with X (after upgrade to Woody)
> I just tried to upgrade a Potato installation to Woody. A lot of things
went
> wrong (details at the end of the message) but the main problem now is that
X
> d
I just tried to upgrade a Potato installation to Woody. A lot of things went
wrong (details at the end of the message) but the main problem now is that X
doesn't work. At one point in time while doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" the
installer strongly suggested installing xserver-xfree86 instead of usi
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