Removable media icons

2006-03-12 Thread Tore Ericsson
The questions are obsolete: Today's fresh upgrade to dbus 0.61-4 made the icons come back! (plus a mess of automounting that was initiated during my search for a solution ...) Don't worry, be happy! Tore Ericsson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Removable media icons

2006-03-12 Thread Tore Ericsson
trol Center settings, etc.: --- (1. My first questions) Subject: Removable media From: Tore Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Florian, In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/02/msg00601.html you wrote: ... If you want to get

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Tore Ericsson
Marty, OK, that's true, I shouldn't run "testing", since it's a bit demanding to maintain upgrades on an enough regular basis when changes are so frequent. It demands for almost daily hands-on-the-system in a way I haven't got time for. That is, when etch goes stable I'll probably stick to it; th

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Tore Ericsson
*** xserver-xorg reconfigured and all other things work again *** Using "dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=dialog debconf" and resetting debconf to use the "dialog" default instead of "KDE" (which needs that dpkg has permission to use the X server, which it didn't have for some reason) solved all proble

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-07 Thread Tore Ericsson
Thanks for the advice regarding debconf, this may perhaps open something: > ... "sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf" and > selecting "Dialog". (This assumes you've configured your user to have > sufficient sudo capabilities; if not, you'll have to figure out some > other way to give root access to your

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
THE problem http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html caused by my stupidness http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00501.html seems to be that the configurations that any Debian tool expects are confusingly out of order or missing in a way that cannot be foreseen (since

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Tuesday 7 March 2006 06:23 skrev Kent West: > Tore Ericsson wrote: > >>The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever > > > >and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, > > I'd appreciate other

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Tuesday 7 March 2006 06:23 skrev Kent West: > Tore Ericsson wrote: > >>The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever > > > >and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, > > I'd appreciate other

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
> The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, I'd appreciate other suggestions than what seems impossible, thanks for bothering anyhow :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Tuesday 7 March 2006 00:05 skrev Kent West: > Tore Ericsson wrote: > >My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue > >(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand > >how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Monday 6 March 2006 23:03 Kai Sandsengen wrote: > I don't see the origin of your problem (just signed up) but it might be > the same I had. Kai, In the ultimate sense, we may have the "same" problem, that is, such a problem that may be resolved by a complete Debian reinstallation. Now since my

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the results of your propos

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Andrei, > You could try getting the .deb for xserver-xorg and linux-image... and > install them manually with dpkg -i > > Just a thought > Andrei > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough: Yes, that is probably true regarding my situation. I try my best. Further, I be

xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-05 Thread Tore Ericsson
I would much appreciate any idea (else than complete system reinstallation) how to correct this fatal error. Background == Unfortunately I have made a grave mistake after an interrupted Synaptic update of xserver-xorg by running "dpkg-reconfigure -a" instead of "dpkg --configure -a" (as ad