Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to
7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate
a lot of mail...
I ran Debian Etch for some months, but about two weeks ago I decided to
switch to Sid. This morning I realized I had negected to install a
little app I use from time to time, so I tried to install it and
aptitude complained about a missing package. Oops, better do an update
first. Ok, may as well do an upgrade.
...What's this? xserver-xorg is going to be *removed*? All these new
xserver hyphenated files are going to be installed? Oh no, this is the
... MODULAR X. Before I could stop myself, I hit "g," then hit it
again. Crap. Should I abort? This day has just been shot to hell, I
think.
Down the packages come, slowly (second time in a row I've had a lousy
transfer rate ... gonna have to check into that). I'm thinking, who do
you think you are, running Sid!? You're barely more than a newb. Why
oh why didn't you do a backup yesterday? Why oh why didn't you check
the mailing list before upgrading? I assemble all the hardware manuals
and docs I can get my hands on, nervously watching the screen.
Half-an-hour of self-flagellation later, the downloads finish and I wait
for the endless configuration questions. I get only one message, about
a new kernel image that's the same as the old kernel image, and telling
me I need to reboot. I shut down, and take a shower. Do some breathing
exercises. Make some more coffee.
I push the power button. Up comes grub. The boot process starts. I
see one vague warning about some true type fonts flash by. Up comes
gdm. No blinking and crashing. I enter my username and password. Up
comes Gnome. It looks normal. I launch by browser. Up comes my
homepage, looking normal. I launch my audio player. I have sound. I
try some of my keyboard shortcuts. They work. I check the X log for
errors. There are none.
I collapse on the floor in a heap of nervous exhaustion.
I am in awe of Debian development and developers. :-)
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Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute
reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson
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