apt-get upgrade woes

[Darren Wheatley]

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the post but I tried that already I'm afraid and it didn't work.

Any ideas?

Cheers

D.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Bågfors" <Zindar at gmail.com>
To: "Darren Wheatley" <darren at tenjin.co.uk>
Cc: "Ubuntu Users List" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: apt-get upgrade woes


> 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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