On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:19:44PM -0700, user list wrote: > So I'm in some very deep trouble. I upgraded Xfree86 to the 4.1 level in > potato without making a debian package. Then, when I tried to install xine > from the testing tree I hosed the system. I have now done a complete > system upgrade to testing and everything works except X11 (a big exception). > When I try to use XFree86 -configure I get alot of unresolved symbols from > modules in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. > > Does anyone have a good idea of how to uninstall and reinstall Xfree86. > Here is a summary of the dumb and exceptionally dumb things I've done. > > 1. Installing 4.1 straight from a tar ball into potato > 2. When the upgrade into testing failed because of files already existing > in /etc/X11 I simply whiped it clean > 3. I've uninstalled and reinstalled task-x-windows-core. What happened then > was a hybrid system. When I tried to run gdm, xinit or startx (all the same > really) 3.3.6 would try to start with a 4.1 config file. > > What I want is to remove every vestige of 3.6 and install a clean 4.1 deb > package.
This is only if someone else is as dumb as I am. What is slowly working is that in testing task-x-window-system became x-window-system. Installing that got me on the road to recovery. Right now I'm trying to get testing gnome to run sawfish. > > Art Edwards > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
