[hoary] can't upgrade to hoary

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:03:32PM -0500, David Feldman wrote:

> Got it, thanks.
> 
> Sadly, the machine is unusable now :-p. As far as I can tell it's a 
> problem with the X server since it looks fine until it displays the 
> login screen, at which point I get an unreadable, jumping, flickering 
> mess in the correct colors for the login screen. I thought at first it 
> was a refresh rate problem of some kind, but the GNOME cursor looks 
> fine anywhere on the screen. Anyone have any ideas? This is a Powerbook 
> G4 DVI 667MHz.

Try booting the system with the 'single' option, which will give you a
text-mode root shell where you can collect debugging information.

/var/log/XFree86.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log would probably be helpful.

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 - mdz