Breezy: X Won't Start

[Steve Feehan]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:33:13PM -0400, Sean C Sieger wrote:
> So, this prints to the terminal:
> 
> sudo apt-get upgrade 2>&1 | tee ~/apt-get.log
> 
> but only 'gets' to here:
> 
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   alsa-base apt apt-utils aptitude aspell-bin aspell-en bind9-host bug-buddy
>   capplets capplets-data cupsys dbus-1-utils dmsetup dnsutils eject evolution
>   evolution-data-server evolution-exchange freeglut3 gaim gaim-data gedit
>   gedit-common gnome-control-center gnome-media gnome-menus gnome-panel
> 
> [...]
> 
>   render-dev rss-glx sound-juicer sp synaptic tcpdump totem totem-gstreamer
>   ttf-indic-fonts ubuntu-base ubuntu-desktop update-notifier w3m wireless-tools
>   wvdial x-dev x-window-system-core xbase-clients xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
>   xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xlibs-data xscreensaver-gl xserver-xorg xterm
>   xutils yelp
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 126 not upgraded.
> 
> So Steve Feehan, you are correct, it seems that apt-get cannot prompt
> me.

You say that as if there was ever any doubt! ;)

Though, I think if you look closely at the last line you'll see
that you probably aren't being prompted at all since there is nothing
to be prompted about. No packages are being installed/updated.

-- 
Steve Feehan