Hi I am using woody and I am having the same problem. Last Sunday I did an upgrade and got the new XFree 4. Since then quite a few things have been getting worse and worse. The worst is that since 2 days starting X makes the screen black and the machine locks-up. Actually I don't think the machine is locked, it is just unable to read the keyboard (and mouse). While I was looking sadly at the black screen, anacron started the usual updatedb and did it fine (as far as I can guess from the noise!).
Other problems have been a) while using X, text is displayed well, but the characters I type are displayed too close to each other, so that it's impossible to read them. b) suspend to disk works only from time to time. Till now I have not succeded in fizing this. In case I can, I'll tell you. Thanks Alessandro > From: Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/116938 > X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Bcc: > > I solved the problem by reinstalling perl 5.6 via dpkg. > > Now there is another serious problem. When x-windows > starts up via xdm, the screen goes blank and the whole > machine locks-up. I had to use the rescue disk to mount > the hard drive and stop xdm from starting to reboot, get > into lynx and send this mail. *...can't find any error > messages* or anything. This has been happening since last > night's upgrade (woody). ...any ideas? > > Please reply to this address as I am still looking for > an outside account that will handle the debian-user volume. > Thanks. > > Art Lemasters > > --- Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running woody. > > > > Running dselect in apt access mode, none of the upgrade > > packages will install. I also tried running apt-get. > > The error message when trying to install is > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > /bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory > > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error > > code (127) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure > > --apt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure *is* there and contains less than 127 > > lines > > How can I fix this system so that it will upgrade for > > the time being? > > > > Please reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now, as I have no > > e-mail account that will handle the volume of debian-user, yet. > > Thanks! > > > > Art Lemasters > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! > > http://calendar.yahoo.com/ > > > > ===== > ************* > We shall serve God, family and country, in that order, > because without the one before it, each would perish. > ************* > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! > http://calendar.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
