Debian testing - update has partly broken X, but which package?

2016-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
System : amd64 testing latest With the same update to testing that brought in the new kernel, about 2 days back, some other package got changed that has partly broken the display of window contents in X. Symptoms - In most windows (except Iceweasel) there is no scroll bar. The top menu line items

Re: "mountpoint: not found" Boot Messages and Broken X

2015-08-25 Thread brett . friermood
On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 8:30:05 AM UTC-5, Darac Marjal wrote: > "mountpoint" is a utility which reports if a given path is a mountpoint. > It would appear that this utility is missing. You sir, are correct. I was mis-reading the errors as the mount point (the location) was not being found

Re: "mountpoint: not found" Boot Messages and Broken X

2015-08-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.08.2015 um 14:51 schrieb brett.frierm...@gmail.com: > Running Debian Jessie on a desktop and did an upgrade Sunday night. Which version of util-linux and initscripts do you have installed? This tools moved from initscripts to util-linux, so maybe you have a new initscripts version combined

Re: "mountpoint: not found" Boot Messages and Broken X

2015-08-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 05:51:48AM -0700, brett.frierm...@gmail.com wrote: > Running Debian Jessie on a desktop and did an upgrade Sunday night. > Everything continued working fine, although I don't think I rebooted at all. > Last night went to boot and I get a ton of "mountpoint: not found" mess

"mountpoint: not found" Boot Messages and Broken X

2015-08-25 Thread brett . friermood
Running Debian Jessie on a desktop and did an upgrade Sunday night. Everything continued working fine, although I don't think I rebooted at all. Last night went to boot and I get a ton of "mountpoint: not found" messages during boot. After boot the console login displays for a fraction of a seco

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades Partially Fixed

2009-04-19 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Paul Scott wrote: I had to remove (move to other name) old xorg.conf after upgrade from sarge to etch to lenny. may be it helps ( the new xorg server is much better in finding out what hardware it's running on) regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades Partially Fixed

2009-04-13 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Monday 13 April 2009 03:43:01 Kelly Clowers, vous avez écrit : On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: (snip) I have basic PS2 keyboard and mouse. Is that what evdev is for? I think in the past evdev was usb only (or at

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-13 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 13 April 2009 03:43:01 Kelly Clowers, vous avez écrit : > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott > >> wrote: > > > > >>> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database! I

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: >>> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database!  I clearly totally >>> missed some basic changes in Xorg.  I have been looking fo

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: >> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you >>>

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you still have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log. [1] You don't r

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: >> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need >> xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you >> still >> have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log. >> >> [1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Apr.09, 23:50:27, Paul Scott wrote: Ok. I'm getting: (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices bec

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Apr.09, 23:50:27, Paul Scott wrote: > Ok. I'm getting: > > (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. > (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. > (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. > If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable >

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
Ok. I'm getting: (II) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device. (II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices. If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput. I have the xorg video input drivers th

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: If # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work for me, I'd try my luck with # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg I forgot for this thread to say that I'm running squeeze/sid (mostly s

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
at else to do. 2009/4/12 Kelly Clowers On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 17:19, Paul Scott wrote: > I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as the > KDE upgrade. At the moment I can't get > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to generate an xorg.conf with anythi

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
If # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't work for me, I'd try my luck with # dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg 2009/4/12 Kelly Clowers > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 17:19, Paul Scott wrote: > > I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as > th

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 17:19, Paul Scott wrote: > I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as the > KDE upgrade.  At the moment I can't get > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to generate an xorg.conf with anything more > than a skeleton in it. > >

very broken X after recent upgrades

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Scott
I have a completely broken X windows which occurred at the same time as the KDE upgrade. At the moment I can't get dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to generate an xorg.conf with anything more than a skeleton in it. How can one force the generation of a new xorg.conf? TIA, Paul Scott

Re: Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-10-13 Thread edwardsa
OK, so this is the real fix. Move FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" to the top (above the misc). I don't understand why, but this gives great fonts for xemacs21. I've revised the web page accordingly. Art Edwards Daniel Johnson wrote: Twice now I have found emacs21 display squares i

Re: Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-10-13 Thread edwardsa
By now, you have probably fixed this problem, but I have been wrestling with font issues for several weeks now. I include a rough webpage with a recipe that has led to consistently pleasing fonts in both gnome and KDE. Art Edwards Daniel Johnson wrote: Twice now I have found emacs21 display s

Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-06-16 Thread Daniel Johnson
Twice now I have found emacs21 display squares instead of fonts after doing an update in Sid, and once they were fixed by an update. It seems that it is either an update to X, or some fonts package that breaks things rather than emacs. I believe both times that it broke apt was updating both X,

RE: SOLVED New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-12 Thread Ed Young
ginal Message- From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 7:06 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Tha

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. > > The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat > /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The > system is a c

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running L

RE: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
- From: Juergen Fiedler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:06 PM To: Ed Young Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > >

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a > /dev/input/mice no device found error. > > I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse > still doesn't work. > I added mousedev to /etc/modules

New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a /dev/input/mice no device found error. I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse still doesn't work. I added mousedev to /etc/modules and now when I reboot, X starts but still no mouse. I've run dpkg-rec

Still Debugging Broken X

2002-06-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I'm still locking up in X running Gnome+Sawfixh, Gnome+icewm, KDE, with and without about every app I have and it's completely random. Once a week or 3 times a day (yesterday). I have physically replaced all hardware, only copying my config and such. I'm at the point of playing with mod

Re: broken X startup in sid

2001-10-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Apparently the problem is the quoted $REALSTARTUP variable in the exec command of /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start. I removed the quotes and it's fine. I guess there were newlines chars in there or something, which are maintained if you quote a shell variable. Mike On Sun, Oct

Re: broken X startup in sid

2001-10-07 Thread Charles Baker
I upgraded sid last night too and it started up fine. Wonder what the problem is --- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I just upgraded, and suddenly X wouldn't > startup anymore. I'd end up > with an error in my $HOME/.xsession file stating > something like > > /usr/bi

Re: broken X startup in sid

2001-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:23:41AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, I just upgraded, and suddenly X wouldn't startup anymore. Look in the list archives. (It might be easier to find in the debian-x archives.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

broken X startup in sid

2001-10-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
So, I just upgraded, and suddenly X wouldn't startup anymore. I'd end up with an error in my $HOME/.xsession file stating something like /usr/bin/ssh-agent sh /home/msoulier/.xsession: no such file or directory I just hacked the /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start file, and put in

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-05 Thread Joel Mayes
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 07:35:55PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Hi there ! > > Yesterday evening I performed an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for my > woody box (as every week). > > I can not anymore start X, I get the following error message in > /var/log/XFree86.0.log: > Fatal server error: > co

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-04 Thread Dominique Deleris
"Donald R. Spoon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had this same problem a couple of nights ago while doing a "apt-get > dist-upgrade" from Potato to Testing. I had seen this same problem > before a few months ago, and it was the fonts that time, so I went > directly to "dselect" and inspected the

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-03 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Dominique Deleris writes: > D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Are the font packages installed? Is xfs installed and running? > > > > Yep. Everything ran fine before the update, and no configuration > file was changed. xfonts-base is still there also. > I had this same problem a co

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-03 Thread Dominique Deleris
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are the font packages installed? Is xfs installed and running? > Yep. Everything ran fine before the update, and no configuration file was changed. xfonts-base is still there also.

Re: Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-03 Thread D-Man
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 07:35:55PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: | Hi there ! | | Yesterday evening I performed an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for my | woody box (as every week). | | I can not anymore start X, I get the following error message in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: | Fatal server error: | coul

Broken X in testing ?

2001-07-03 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hi there ! Yesterday evening I performed an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for my woody box (as every week). I can not anymore start X, I get the following error message in /var/log/XFree86.0.log: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' plus this message on the console at boot time : [d

Re: Broken X

2000-08-03 Thread kmself
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:43:47PM +, Philip Downer wrote: > > If anyone could help me with this I'd appreciate it. I've just > installed debian potato test-cycle-1 (some cds I bought at UK Linux > Expo 2000). However whenever I run X I get the following message: > > Fatal Server Error: canno

Broken X

2000-08-03 Thread Philip Downer
If anyone could help me with this I'd appreciate it. I've just installed debian potato test-cycle-1 (some cds I bought at UK Linux Expo 2000). However whenever I run X I get the following message: Fatal Server Error: cannot open mouse (No such file or directory) I decided to create the directo

Broken X

1998-09-03 Thread joseph evan porter
I just upgraded xbase to 3.3.2.3a1 from the slink distribution (using apt-get BTW -- it's very nice). I'm still using the hamm distribution, and now I have no window manager. I can start it from the command line of the default xterm that shows up, but I think a link is broken somewhere. Anyone el