On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > Dale Morris wrote: > > > > Yesterday I built the 2.4-9 kernel. The box crashed for no apparent > > reason and now I just did an apt-get upgrade and destroyed Xwindows. > > Here's what I think is wrong. I was trying to get true type fonts > > working a while back and had problems with XF86Config. So I went to > > the XFree86 download site and ran ./install -check script and > > downloaded and installed all the necessary files to upgrade me to > > 4.0.3. Everything worked fine until today when I tried to upgrade > > (have done so successfully in the past) and apt tried to install > > XServer and Xserver-svga and numerous other Xpackages I don't > > remember. Then it exited with an error. I tried removing (didn't work) > > Xwindows and installing x-window-system (didn't work) and ended up > > with lots of error messages. Any way out of this short of a reinstall? > > well, check the error messages. It worked after I removed the offending files I did option to install the package maintainers version of all the new .deb configuration files. Only thing is now the menus don't work properly.. > > btw why would you run install scripts from XFree86 download site? The > X 4.x is in debian and you can use the ttf straight out of the box > (don't even need the font server (if you don't want to serve fonts for > other machines)) I don't remember now, for some reason it wouldn't work and I was in a try anything mode. It seems I have to have a certain amount of frustration in my life.
thanks for your help! dale