Hi Michael. I guess you guys get access to email addresses :) My resulting output is below the quotes of your commands.
> the nvidia-glx installed on your system conflicts with the nvidia- kernel-1.0.9629. It refuses do continue as the removal of nvidia-glx makes X unusable on a normal ubuntu system. Can you please give me the output of: That makes me wish that I had not installed feisty on my laptop, as it had the same symptoms but uses an intel chipset. It occurred around the same period of time (same few days), but quite some time ago. Indeed if I had looked at those logs I could have figured out the problem very easily, I looked instead at the logs on my laptop when the problem first occurred and I could not find any obvious problem (and I was pretty certain I performed a diff on the logs from each machine - either I'm mistaken or the problem has changed over time). The output from your suggested commands follows: > $ dpkg -I nvidia-kernel-1.0.9629*.deb dpkg-deb: failed to read archive `nvidia-kernel-1.0.9629*.deb': No such file or directory > $ apt-cache show nvidia-kernel-1.0.9629 : Which is to say, there was no output. > The system is capable of manage its packages to a extend that it even > prevents removal of packages that are considered essential for a > functional system. You can still overwrite these safeguards with > synaptic or apt-get if you whish. Indeed. And I did not mean to imply that I am not pleased with Ubuntu or it's package management, just that the so called 'average' user is much more picky when they are already confronted with change. Thanks for your help. -- Cameron -- Could not calculate upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64859 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
