Re: X-windows hosed! Solved
Dale Morris wrote: 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.. not work in what way? did you try update-menus? try to check at least few window managers to see if all of them or just some of them are screwed up. 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. well, ok. erik
X-windows hosed!
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? -- |Dale L. Morris | Homepage: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Massage Therapist | PGP key: http://www.well.com/user/dlm | |Telephone: (702) 647-5583 || |ICQ #: 67278457|Yahoo Instant Messenger: dl_morri |
Re: X-windows hosed!
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. if that doesn't help, post the most important ones (usually the first ones) and other relevant info here. also - how did you try to remove it? (there might be some more 'forceful' commands than the ones you used) 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)) erik
Re: X-windows hosed! Solved
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
