apt-get upgrade woes

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Oct 18 20:32:55 UTC 2004


On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:37:52AM +0100, Darren Wheatley wrote:

> 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.

We would need the exact text of the messages you saw in order to determine
the problem.  Send /var/log/XFree86.0.log as well, and the output from
"uname -a".

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 - mdz




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