Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:55:11 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:11:26PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > You can get a list of your installed unofficial packages with > > > > aptitude search '~i!~Odebian' > > > > huh. that shows me a huge list of packages,

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:11:26PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > You can get a list of your installed unofficial packages with > > aptitude search '~i!~Odebian' > huh. that shows me a huge list of packages, including ones I KNOW came from debian. Does it also list packages that have been rep

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:11:26PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Is it possible to remove opera with "dpkg -r opera"? I remember at least > one other case on this list where the presence of opera turned the Xorg I tried doing that, but the result was an attempt to remove nearly everything kde

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 13:32:02 -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > $ ls -ld /usr/include/X11/ > > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2006-05-23 10:41 /usr/include/X11/ > > > > I think you could try to create the directory with the same owner and > > permissions and then repeat the upgrade. (I am not sure,

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread David E. Fox
> $ ls -ld /usr/include/X11/ > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2006-05-23 10:41 /usr/include/X11/ > > I think you could try to create the directory with the same owner and > permissions and then repeat the upgrade. (I am not sure, but I guess This is with Xorg 6.9.0.dfsg1-6 - doing a dpkg --configur

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:25:08 -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:21:40PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > previously: > > > > > But maybe I'll rerun aptitude dist-upgrade and see what happens, like > > you said. It seems, though, that I'll still have to reconfigure or > >

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:21:40PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: previously: > > But maybe I'll rerun aptitude dist-upgrade and see what happens, like > you said. It seems, though, that I'll still have to reconfigure or > reinstall x11-common and other X11R7-related packages. After waiting, I w

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-24 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:14:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I think I'd just let aptitude do what it wants, and then clean up afterward: > > aptitude update > aptitude dist-upgrade > > and see what happens. I might do that - in fact I went ahead and "did" it - but aborted at the end, saved th

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-24 Thread Kent West
David E. Fox wrote: > OK > > Please help before I install Ubuntu or something > > I should have really read the wiki (now I've managed to lose that page) > to upgrade xorg to 7.0. It started to grab all the needed packages and > then there are total conflicts between packages that depend on

[testing] HELP - lost X

2006-06-24 Thread David E. Fox
OK Please help before I install Ubuntu or something I should have really read the wiki (now I've managed to lose that page) to upgrade xorg to 7.0. It started to grab all the needed packages and then there are total conflicts between packages that depend on xserver-common (6.9, latest vers