Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-09 Thread fireball
Your suggestion WORKED! I was able to remove enough of the NVIDIA cruft so that apt-get would install gdm3. My desktop environment is now working, thanks to your suggestion. THANK YOU! -- View this message in context:

gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
I upgraded my Debian system from squeeze to wheezy. Now gdm is broken. I am attaching the Xorg.0.log file. Any suggestions? Xorg.0.log http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/file/n2970296/Xorg.0.log -- View this message in context:

Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
Update: I am unable to install gdm3: # apt-get install gdm3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done gdm3 is already the newest version. The following packages will be REMOVED: glx-diversions 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and

Re: gdm broken after upgrade from squeeze to wheezy

2013-06-08 Thread fireball
I am unable to remove or install any of the following half-installed packages: glx-alternative-mesa glx-alternative-nvidia glx-alternative-fglrx glx-diversions Even the methods described here do not work: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631845 -- View this message in context:

Re: Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy fails with error

2013-06-07 Thread fireball
For example, I tried this link http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/12/msg00561.html which suggests trying the following steps: apt-get update apt-get install gnome apt-get -f install (had to do that about three times before full success) apt-get -f dist-upgrade However, the above

Re: Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy fails with error

2013-06-07 Thread fireball
Your real thing suggestion is the best one so far! Somehow, in my haste, I confused someone's ad-hoc howto for the real release notes. I ended up hiring a consultant for a couple of hours to bail me out. My system is now upgraded. The only task I have left is to get gdm working properly with my

Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy fails with error

2013-06-06 Thread fireball
Today I tried upgrading from squeeze to wheezy. I followed the instructions here: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy When I did the dist-upgrade, after it downloaded several hundred files, it gave me this error message: E: Could not perform immediate configuration