system crashed after xserver-xorg-core update
Henk Koster
H.A.J.Koster at xs4all.nl
Tue Aug 22 14:22:15 UTC 2006
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:17:06 +0200, Henk Koster wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:40:54 +0200, Harschnitz wrote:
>
>> As a new Linux (Ubuntu) user I had 2 PC's successfully up and running
>> since yesterday. Today, since the first update (xserver-xorg-core), both
>> PC's are unable to run normally.
>>
>> As a novice I would appreciate a step by step routine that could sort
>> this problem.
>>
>> NB The systems were fully up to date status August 21.
>>
>> Rob Harschnitz.
>
> These things happen sometimes with an OS that tries to remain close
> to the latest developments. Luckily, the /var/cache/apt/archives directory
> contains all the previously installed packages, among which is the
> xserver-xorg-core package version 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.
>
> So, all a novice (or anyone, for that matter) has to do to reinstate
> the ex ante situation is
>
> $ sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10
>
> and reboot (or start the gdm window manager). Since the offending
> package had version number 10.3, you should in future only install a
> newer version that.
Eh... make that
$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10
Sorry.
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