system crashed after xserver-xorg-core update

[daqing]

2006/8/22, Henk Koster <H.A.J.Koster at xs4all.nl>:
>
> 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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oh,yes ! It works successfully on my pc, thank you
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