Wow, today's updates really killed me

[Wouter Eerdekens]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:55:20AM -0500, Matt Philmon wrote:
> >  Anyone else run the updates and gotten pretty much completely borked?

Yep, same here...

> Ok... it seems there's several ways to deal with this so I'll answer my own question for any faced with a similar situation:
> 1) You can switch back to xfree86:
> sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg
> sudo apt-get install server-xfree86
> 2) You can reinstall the previous build (likely in your cache):
> dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-org_6.8.1-1ubuntu6_i386.deb
> 3) You can remove the patch that killed xorg, rebuild, and reinstall:
> sudo apt-get source xorg
> cd xorg-6.8.1
> sudo rm debian/patches/028_loader_speed_hack.diff
> sudo fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
> --- wait a long time ---
> install the built xserver-xorg package
> 4) ... and of course you can always wait for the patch(s) that will likely come pretty soon.

5 ) download the previous version from
    http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/
    and install with
    dpkg -i xserver-xorg_6.8.1-1ubuntu6_i386.deb

Cheers,
Wouter


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