post breezy upgrade

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 03:15 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> * after upgrade, X was borked-borked-borked. Several related issues:
>  * The debconf interface changed to look _really_ weird on my laptop. My
> really weird I mean that things like "<Yes>    <No>" look like "<<Yes>
> <<No" and various UI corruption.
>  * the dpkg upgraded x config failed to bring across my ServerLayouts
> and named server sections, which daniel had kindly created for me to do
> external monitor This resulted in X not starting :0... and I couldn't
> get the gdm 'do you want to check the log' dialogue to work - it was non
> responsive. I ended up bringing ubuntu up in single user mode.

Huh, I've never heard of us stomping configs before.  If you
dpkg-reconfigure, it'll get stomped, but it backs it up and tells you
where.

My best guess as to what's going wrong is that gcc4 has ruined
dual-screen support (VGA routing ends up getting screwed, so the BIOS
tries to execute invalid code when you init VBE; not only non-trivial to
debug, but occurs entirely randomly, and usually when you have no time
to debug it, but instead nead your frigging laptop to work -- not that
I'm bitter, really), so your server's crashing out on startup?

Cheers,
Daniel