I just did an apt-get upgrade, my first in about 10 days. I'm now unable to log in (except if I set my GDM session to Debian, which is how I got on to send this message).
My system is potato with a little woody to support GNOME. I use Helix gnome. After the upgrade the system locked up and started beeping--this seems to be standard when updating sawfish. Unfortunately, when I restarted I had the problem described above. When I enter a user name and password the login screen disappears, and the monitor makes a click as if resyncing. The login screen then comes back on. I'd appreciate any advice on where to look for the source of the problem. Thanks. System info: Linux wheat 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown Here's the start of the upgrade session, and then my apt.sources: Script started on Tue Dec 12 01:03:09 2000 wheat:/usr/local/rootlog# date Tue Dec 12 01:03:11 PST 2000 wheat:/usr/local/rootlog# apt-get -qu upgrade Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages have been kept back gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal libgnomeprint11 The following packages will be upgraded cpp-doc cron dnsutils ed elvis-tiny gcc-doc gnome-bin gnome-control-center gnome-dev-doc gnome-faq gnome-help-data gnome-libs-data gs libart-dev libart2 libcapplet0 libgdk-pixbuf2 libgnome-dev libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba-dev libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtkxmhtml1 libncurses5 libncurses5-dev liborbit-dev liborbit0 libpanel-applet0 libreadlineg2 librep9 libzvt2 modutils ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term netscape-base-4 netscape-base-4-libc5 orbit rep rep-gtk rstart rstartd sawfish sawfish-gnome sgml-tools ssh ssh-askpass-gnome xbase-clients xext xf86setup xfree86-common xfs xlib6 xlib6g xlib6g-dev xmms xnest xproxy xprt xserver-common xserver-svga xserver-vga16 xsm xterm xvfb 67 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 24.9MB of archives. After unpacking 945kB will be used. [Nothing unusual in the rest of the log] [sources.list] deb-src cdrom:[Debian beta #2 bf 2.2.3]/ Debian/dists/potato/main/source/ deb cdrom:[Debian beta #2 bf 2.2.3]/ Debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:[Debian beta #2 bf 2.2.3]/ Debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/ deb cdrom:[beta Debian 2.2.3]/ Debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/ deb file:/ms/k/download/debian potato main #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/ potato/non-US main non-free contrib #deb http://security.debian.org potato updates # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ potato/non-US main non-free contrib #Helix deb file:/usr/local/download/Helix woody main deb-src file:/usr/local/download/Helix woody main deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main deb-src http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
