Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:18:49AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > One thing, though. After Branden's NMU of wdm 1.20-11.2, > /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers has all X server lines commented out. It used to > be that the postinst would uncomment one if the user requested it that > wdm be used to manage :0.

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:16:37PM +0300, Jaakko Niemi wrote: > Perhaps the packages could do something about it. This is certainly > FAQ material. Yeah, hence the fact that my message to Dale quoted from my own FAQ, available in xfree86-common. -- G. Branden Robinson| Con

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > Now I seem to have some font problems. Netscape seems to be OK, but the > GIMP comes up with [] [] [] [] [] in place of the hint text. The title > bars are OK but any "filled in" text is just [] repeated. Any hints? Branden gives a

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:41:47AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:35:51PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > > Since the debconf default-display-manager mechanism is now used to > > > determine which display manager runs, shouldn't wdm/Xservers contain a > > > valid server lin

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:35:51PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > Since the debconf default-display-manager mechanism is now used to > > determine which display manager runs, shouldn't wdm/Xservers contain a > > valid server line for :0? > > Just uncommented the last line in /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers,

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:18:49AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:40:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > On the installation in question the Xservers file has everything commented > > > out. The defau

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:40:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > On the installation in question the Xservers file has everything commented > > out. The default-display-manager file contains the line: > > > > /usr/bin/X11/wdm > >

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > Now I seem to have some font problems. Netscape seems to be OK, but the > > GIMP comes up with [] [] [] [] [] in place of the hint text. The title > > bars are OK but any "filled in" text i

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On the installation in question the Xservers file has everything commented > out. The default-display-manager file contains the line: > > /usr/bin/X11/wdm > > I put the correct line into the Xservers file and wdm comes up as > expect

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Now I seem to have some font problems. Netscape seems to be OK, but the > GIMP comes up with [] [] [] [] [] in place of the hint text. The title > bars are OK but any "filled in" text is just [] repeated. Any hints? Some have reported

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:08:15AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I copied XF86Config from my old Woody system into the newly upgraded > > > system and, while startx works just fin

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I copied XF86Config from my old Woody system into the newly upgraded > > system and, while startx works just fine, wdm starts up but doesn't start > > the server, or log any messages i

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-25 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > I copied XF86Config from my old Woody system into the newly upgraded > > system and, while startx works just fine, wdm starts up but doesn't start > > the server, or log any messages i

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I copied XF86Config from my old Woody system into the newly upgraded > system and, while startx works just fine, wdm starts up but doesn't start > the server, or log any messages in /var/log/wdm.log. (the log file exists, > but is empt

Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
I was gifted with a 2 gig SCSI drive, so the first thing I tried was installing a system. I installed Potato from a set of CheapBytes CDs, but did not set up X at that time. Then I upgraded over PPP to the latest Woody archives. The "automatic" X setup failed, but then I've never had that work for