xserver-xorg-core update breaks X

[Scott]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:11:23 +1000, Adam Conrad wrote:

> Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
>>
>> Ubuntu security team, please fix the problem ASAP.
> 
> This update wasn't a security update (it wasn't released in
> dapper-security but, rather, dapper-updates).  This doesn't mean, of
> course, that the package isn't buggy (I have no idea, but I'm willing to
> take the word of several people in a thread who all seem to be having
> problems).
> 
> One of you should file a bug in Malone on the "xorg-server" source
> package so that Rodrigo will be alerted to the problem, and he can help
> you work through it.
> 

As luck would have it, Malone is down as of this writing.

And yes, I had the same problem. So I downgraded and all is right with the
world.