Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> writes: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 06:55:48PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've recently done a tremendous amount of removing and purging. I >> wanted rid of kde and finally to install lxde. And threw into the >> bargain moving from testing to stable. > > Downgrades are not supported. You are in for an uphill battle.
Strangely enough things seem to have settled down. I kept installing parts of xorg and lxde and eventually it all seemed to work. Or at least at a casual glance. I am getting a message when the desktop loads (following startx) that says I've had a kernel failure... However I don't see anything obvious that does not seem to be working. I'm not seeing anything regarding kernel in /var/log/messages or /var/log/kern.log... that seems to be about a failure. Possibly I'm just blind. I'm liking what I've seen of lxde so far too. So basically I'm a happy camper... I must say though that none of it happened thru my exceptional skill... it was all blind luck and happenstance. However, I think that happenstance might mean that even a fairly incompetent klutz might be able to blunder thru a huge bout of ripping out kde and most of X then moving from testing to stable, and finally installing lxde and enough of xorg stuff to make it work, without all that much trouble. I might add that there were quite a few instances where aptitude claimed to be installing stuff, but in fact did not. I would just pick out some other package that was involved and try again. Eventually it seemed to work. I guess it points up the truth of the legendary solidity of debian. Of course I may be speaking a bit too soon..... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zk8bydh2....@newsguy.com