On 16 Apr 2006, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop > running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx > drivers. > > Both upgrades failed miserably. > > On the nVidia workstation, it gives me the following: > > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > libglu1-xorg-dev (due to efl-all) > 368 upgraded, 85 newly installed, 32 to remove and 11 not upgraded. > Need to get 301MB/309MB of archives. > After unpacking 52.7MB disk space will be freed. > You are about to do something potentially harmful. > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' > ?] > > On the fglrx laptop, it attempts to remove fglrx-driver, but can't find > a diversion to replace /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2. > > Whats the best upgrade path for both of these boxes? > > Thanks, > --b
Don't do it at all. I've now lost X after an upgrade; after 2 days work it just loads but I can't use it because my window manager won't come up properly. In desperation I tried to install testing on a spare partition but that was no good either because it won't install any packages at all - something about e2fsprogs needing to be removed temporarily. I'm beginning to think I shall have to go back to stable to get a working system. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
