[ubuntu-mythtv] Upgrade problem going to 10.10 with X

Mario Limonciello superm1 at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 12 01:36:36 BST 2010


  Hi Jason:

On 10/11/2010 05:28 PM, Jason wrote:
>    I went from mythbuntu 8 (I think that was it) to 10.4 on my backend
> with no problems.  Then I upgraded my front end and had an error with
> grub that I couldn't get past.  No biggie I just reinstalled with the
> disk.  Not thinking I grabbed the 10.10 download.  So flash forward my
> backend then didn't work with the front end because of the mythtv
> versions.  So then I moved the backend to version 10.10.
>
> During that upgrade I got the error message:
>
> Couldn't configure pre-depend x11-common for x11-xkb-utils, probably a
> dependency cycle.
>
> I read this is the fix for that:
>
> sudo apt-get remove x11-xkb-utils
>
Is there a proper bug filed for this?
> That let me get past the error and install the 10.10 update.
>
Did this by chance remove a significantly larger amount than you think?  
Is X itself still installed?
> Now after upgrading my backend won't start up X.  I can watch TV from
> the front end so it's not a huge problem but I would like to fix the
> backend obviously so I can watch TV from there.
>
> How do I get the x-windows interface back to the way it normally is with
> mythbuntu / auto login and such?
>
> I did try reinstalling that x11-xkb-utils but it didn't help.  As well
> as xubuntu-desktop.
What's the output of:
# apt-get install mythbuntu-desktop

That's the metapackage used in mythbuntu (not xubuntu-desktop)
> Thank you,
>
> Jason Portwood
> jason at wkrp.com
>


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Mario Limonciello
superm1 at ubuntu.com
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