Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:20:58PM +0100, Martin Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Any reason you were doing this through dselect rather than apt-get or aptitude? How do I get a list of packages installed/availbale through the apt interface? If I can I will happily move on from

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote: I am merely surprised that doing an 'update available packages' in dselect automatically installed a new kernel image and made it the default boot option in my grub menu.lst. Now fixed.

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-05 Thread Martin Waller
Jeff D wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote: Hi, No idea whats gone wrong - I did a get updates thing using dselect whilst installing some other software and find loads of my configurations have changed. I guess its a result of this: http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070817

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-02 Thread s. keeling
Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For your video problem, you can try : dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver Just a nit; that should be xserver-xorg. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -

Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-01 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, No idea whats gone wrong - I did a get updates thing using dselect whilst installing some other software and find loads of my configurations have changed. I guess its a result of this: http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070817 First, my /boot/grub/menu.lst has been dicked around with: -

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Martin Waller wrote: Hi, No idea whats gone wrong - I did a get updates thing using dselect whilst installing some other software and find loads of my configurations have changed. I guess its a result of this: http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070817 First, my