Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Having just reinstalled xorg and reconfigured, I now have a working X > > but only with twm. How can I get icewm to work again is the really > > interesting question. > > > > Anthony > > If you use startx

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16 Apr 2006, John Fry wrote: > > Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: > > > I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal > > > again. > > > In order to get the resolution right though,

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, John Fry wrote: > Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: > > I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again. > > In order to get the resolution right though, I had to > > (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfig

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:39:55AM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Anyone with working x can post the fonts they have installed. A 'dpkg -l *fonts* |grep ii' gave me: xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-scalable xfonts-utils and the fonts section of my xorg.conf: Section

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Toshiro wrote: > > >Well, I've been using sid for years and I've never been in this state > > >of chaos before; I had to uninstall all xorg related packages and > > >install them again (I'm happy to have one local machine with > > >apt-proxy, so I haven't wasted time

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Toshiro
> >Well, I've been using sid for years and I've never been in this state > >of chaos before; I had to uninstall all xorg related packages and > >install them again (I'm happy to have one local machine with > >apt-proxy, so I haven't wasted time downloading everything again :) ). > >

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Chris
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 07:39 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > yes. I did dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig also. > When I comment out misc line in xorg.conf, I get > could not open default font 'fixed' > when I keep misc line, I get another error. > Anyone with working x can post the fonts they have installe

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 07:47:23 -0700, John Fry wrote: [...] > Oh, and in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf I commented out Syntaptics, since > that driver was giving X trouble: > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Screen "Default Screen" > InputD

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread John Fry
John Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: >> I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again. >> In order to get the resolution right though, I had to >> (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfi

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/16/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:01:58 -0700 > L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My files section as follows > > Section "Files" > > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread John Fry
Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: > I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again. > In order to get the resolution right though, I had to > (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to get a > fresh configurat

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Jan Schledermann
Ian Kester-Haney wrote: > I fixed this by installing xfonts-base for 7.0 and it fixed it > no idea why they were not included with package > > > On 4/15/06, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:05:11 -0300 Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally have a > > > reason to figure out how X works. :-/) > > > > This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up, that's > > supposed to be the fun

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2006, Toshiro wrote: > >> > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally >have a > >> > reason to figure out how X works. :-/) > >> > >> This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up, >that's > >> supposed to be the fun

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Toshiro
> > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally have a > > reason to figure out how X works. :-/) > > This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up, that's > supposed to be the fun part :) Well, I've been using sid for years and I've never been in this state

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:01:58 -0700 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My files section as follows > Section "Files" > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" > FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:23:50 -0500 "Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally have a > reason to figure out how X works. :-/) This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up, that's supposed to be the fun part

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:50:21PM -0400, nick lidakis wrote: > I was able to get xorg started with your suggestion, but startx > disregards my .xsession and tries to start twm (from > /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc), whicj is not installed. It seems xinit is now executing the shell script /usr/lib

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:50:43 -0400, nick lidakis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: I get the same error message, but X still starts for me, both with "startx" from the console and with graphical log-in via kdm. Therefore I would guess that you have an additional pro

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Ian Kester-Haney
I fixed this by installing xfonts-base for 7.0 and it fixed it no idea why they were not included with package On 4/15/06, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/15/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 15:13:28 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > > > > Toda

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/15/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 15:13:28 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > > Today once again I did dist-upgrade. I made mdsum filr for xorg.conf > > and did dpkg-reconfigure. Still x didn't start. Output as below after > > keeping only font lines mentio

Re: Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Autumn Lansing
> On 15 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 15 Apr 2006, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ wrote: > > > 2006--04-15 15:00 +0200, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 2006-04-15 13:56 +0200, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > and to make matters worse something I've do

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 15:13:28 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 4/15/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 16:02:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 15 Apr 2006, Chris wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > After

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:50:43 -0400, nick lidakis wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >I get the same error message, but X still starts for me, both with > >"startx" from the console and with graphical log-in via kdm. Therefore I > >would guess that you have an additional problem. Do you find a

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/15/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 16:02:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 15 Apr 2006, Chris wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up. > > > > The error

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread nick lidakis
Florian Kulzer wrote: I get the same error message, but X still starts for me, both with "startx" from the console and with graphical log-in via kdm. Therefore I would guess that you have an additional problem. Do you find any error messages or warnings in the log files after you try to start X?

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 16:02:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Apr 2006, Chris wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up. > > > The error message says: Fatal server error: could not open default font >

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 >> Didn't help here (but I don't have gdm). Unless I include the path to >> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc it complains about no default file, but if I >> do include it I get "FPE: "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, >> should be 1; fixing" >>

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Apr 2006, Chris wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up. > > The error message says: Fatal server error: could not open default font > > "fixed". > > > > The x fonts are still there however. Anyone else se

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Chris
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up. > The error message says: Fatal server error: could not open default font > "fixed". > > The x fonts are still there however. Anyone else seeing this? > Commenting out all FontPath

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Apr 2006, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ wrote: > > 2006--04-15 15:00 +0200, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2006-04-15 13:56 +0200, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > and to make matters worse something I've done to > > >

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Apr 2006, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ wrote: > 2006--04-15 15:00 +0200, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2006-04-15 13:56 +0200, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > and to make matters worse something I've done to > > > try to solve the problem has made matters worse. I

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Gonzalo HIGUERA DÍAZ
2006--04-15 15:00 +0200, Gonzalo HIGUERA DÍAZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006-04-15 13:56 +0200, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > and to make matters worse something I've done to > > try to solve the problem has made matters worse. I'm now getting a new > > error about not being able to

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Gonzalo HIGUERA DÍAZ
2006-04-15 13:56 +0200, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 15 Apr 2006, James Westby wrote: > > On (15/04/06 11:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:10:58 +0100 > > > Subject: Tod

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Apr 2006, James Westby wrote: > On (15/04/06 11:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:10:58 +0100 > > Subject: Today's disaster with xorg update > > Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.deb

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-15 Thread James Westby
On (15/04/06 11:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:10:58 +0100 > Subject: Today's disaster with xorg update > Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > After today's upgrade on Sid, X