I forgot how to list the startup information (errors, etc.) for X-Windows. ...anyone remember how to do this? ...might help with a solution. CC me with the answer, please. Thanks.
Art Lemasters --- Alessandro Ghigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > ===== ************* 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/
