Hoary upgrade to Breezy breaks X on Mac

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:40:22AM -0600, Michael Moore wrote:
> After the Breezy upgrade, I rebooted to check out how everything
> worked, and X won't start. GDM either freezes, or dies, or ends up in
> an ncurses debconf window saying X is probably misconfigured and do I
> want to see the output. With this list one, I can't type anything, so
> I don't know if it's a keyboard issue from trying to launch X, or if
> it freezes.

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6286

> When GDM dies each time, if I can log in and stop it, then try to
> start X manually, it crashes nicely with this output:
> [...]
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed';
> the X server's font paths might be misconfigured, remote font server(s)
> may be unreachable, and/or local fonts may not be installed or are not
> configured correctly.

Ensure that you have the ubuntu-desktop package installed, and if so, please
file this in Bugzilla as an upgrade failure.

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> 
> Holding down the power button doesn't cause the computer to shut down,
> it just sleeps then wakes up again and again.
> 
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On my system, holding the power button for about 5 seconds causes a hard
(forced) power off, which is what I expect.

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 - mdz