apt-get upgrade woes

[Erik Bågfors]

Don't reinstall.
login and then run
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 (I think that's the command anyway)

Does that work?

Regards,
Erik


On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:37:52 +0100, Darren Wheatley <darren at tenjin.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Ubuntu a little while ago and it has been rock solid.
> 
> This evening I ran a "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade". When I
> restarted my PC I got a lot of XFree errors, and XFree wouldn't start.
> 
> The errors are related to a missing keyboard mapping, missing screen
> mapping, and a bad xf86ConfigHandle (or something similar....!) file.
> 
> One question: I ran "apt-get upgrade" while running Gnome. Should I have
> killed XFree before running the upgrade? If so, what is the best way of
> doing that?
> 
> It looks like I need to reinstall Ubuntu now. It would be great to know how
> to upgrade properly before the final Warty release comes out.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> D.
> 
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