system crashed after xserver-xorg-core update

[Henk Koster]

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.