Hi all, Yesterday I installed some updates (general stuff, nothing odd, just those showing in the list) and then after everything appeared to run to conclusion, I went to work. This evening I came home and the GUI was frozen. I hit ctrl+alt and backspace.
My second screen was dead, my UI was on about 800x600, the nVidia driver was reported as MIA (it was there just not being used) and the keyboard function were not working properly (this was some problem with the GUI). I finally managed to get going by hand hacking the xorg.conf file - nothing I tried in the GUI would work. During this I'd received a message (whenever I tried to use the GUI tools for screen manipulation - eg. resolution) that I had broken/missing packages, but Synaptic claimed all was fine. As I said, after a couple of hours of screwing around (after dinner with the family, putting kids to bed and THEN trying to work out the problem) I've managed to get things back to normal. Other things that were not working included alt+f2 for the run command and odd little KDE things like not being able to manually adjust the colour settings for the GUI. I'm running KDE 3.5 in Hardy (I'll wait until the next LTS version for 4.0 :)) I have no odd GUI hacks running, so I've no idea what the update did. So, I'm curious. Has anyone else come across this or anything similar in the last few days? Regards, Patrick -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
