On March 15, 2004 06:48, Andrew Ingram wrote: > Last week, when I did an apt-get update (I'm on Sid btw), I was told > that: > > The following packages have been kept back: > x-window-system-core xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev > > Now, normally when I see that, I do an apt-get install of the > packages so that apt then tells me it can't install them because of > certain dependencies, which out of curiosity I like to know. This > time however, the upgrade went ahead to my horror. I ctrl-c'd out but > it was too late, the damage had been done. Things seemed to be going > ok since then but today's upgrade required me to downgrade libxft2 to > 2.1.2-5 in order to go through. But I've noticed I'm now stating to > have all kinds of nasty stuff happening with fonts (ie not showing > any text at all) and windows are appearing with hardly any height, > but massive width (again, no text). Opening Konqueror for example > shows no menu bar, just some horizontal black lines and there is no > text anywhere. Kate just crashes, etc. > > I am a bit too scared to do a reboot as I have a feeling it will only > make things worse. Is there a way out of this? In order to get into > this mess, I did: > apt-get install xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu > xlibmesa-glu-dev > which removed: > xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu > > I'd really appreciate some help as I dont fancy having to re-install > X/KDE from scratch.
Fix the installation of libxft2 and libxft-dev as described in my message a few minutes ago. Reinstall the removed and downgraded packages with: apt-get -t unstable install <packagenames>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
