Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-13 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 2:16 pm, Curt Howland wrote: > Good thing you had a full backup. The only thing I backup is user data > (and /etc/*) so I would have had to do a fresh rebuild. Hmm, maybe > that's not such a bad idea anyway. Flush out those obsolete libraries > and applications on the lis

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-13 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I saw that it was going to be a doozie with "apt-get upgrade" and some packages were going to be held back, I decided to use dselect for dependency resolution. Good thing, there is a dependency error with some new library so that all (or a whol

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
Expect for gtk.All things that use gtk (Firefox, Synaptic and Gnome itself) do not run. News: This problem is fixed with the new xserver-xorg-core update.What went wrong the first time round? And why in the world did it remove xserver-xorg in the first place so that I had to install xorg? -- —A wat

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Michael M. wrote:> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:> >apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to> >7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate > >a lot of mail... And here is my mail.I upgraded X to 7.0; it

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to > >7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate > >a lot of mail... > > > > > I ran Debian Etch for some mo

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Michael M.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to 7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate a lot of mail... I ran Debian Etch for some months, but about two weeks ago I decided to switch to Sid. This morning I re

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:35:03AM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: ... > I decided to restore my system from yesterday's backup. I am up and running > normally again but am at a loss as to what is causing X to fail upon startup. > I'm hesitant to upgrade again just to see the messages that appear in

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Rick Friedman
On Wed April 12 2006 10:56, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and > > > >installed (can't r

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and > > >installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message > > >appeared

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and > >installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message > >appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to > >/bin/true. No ide

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to /bin/true. No idea why this was done but the result was that X woul

Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to /bin/true. No idea why this was done but the result was that X would no longer start. I there