Hello. I spent several hours this evening dealing with the consequences of an unintended Xorg upgrade, and I thought it might be worth reporting here in case others could learn from my experience.
The upgrade was unintended only in the sense that all I really wanted to do was upgrade k3b: apt-get -u -t testing install k3b But that upgrade took out my xserver completely (without a warning that I saw at least) and so (obviously) X wouldn't start. When I realized what was wrong, I tried to fix that with: apt-get -u -t testing install xorg That done, when I tried to start X again, I ran into the same problem as had been reported as Bug #390772. I tracked that down through the Debian bug-reports database, and removed the line: ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" which had been carried forward into the new xorg.conf. Even after this, though, X still wouldn't start. It complained: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' After a lot of messing around, I managed to fix this by hand-editing xorg.conf and adding to it, essentially, the contents of the directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/ (in the "Files" section)---information which had somehow not made it into the auto-generated xorg.conf. The next problem was that gdeskcal (a little app that I'm fond of) wouldn't start, complaining about a missing gtk module. 15 or 20 minutes spent googling led to the solution for that problem---install python-gtk2 (though that was not a dependency on the gdeskcal package). So three or so hours later, I have a system that works nearly as well as it did before I accidentally `upgraded' it. Hmmmmmm ... Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
