Hi Heracles suggested a clean reinstall of all. How does one do that from an already installed Debian? I'd do it from the current Debian as that has internet access via bigpond. I have just command line only. Still I'd prefer to recover and learn more.
> Upgrading the wifes PC from an old Debian to etch using dist-upgrade has > really busted it. xserver-xorg won't install as it depends on x11-common > but that won't install as I get a dpkg "error processing xmem (--remove)" > during the post removal script. I have tried also just 'apt-get -f install' > and I get the same error. > > I have tried to remove xmem using dpkg --force-all and various other options > to dpkg but it still wont work. At this stage I think I need to totally > remove X11 stuff and reinstall it. > > Any help appreciated to recover from this. > > MikeMike Lake > Mike Lake -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
