xserver problems during update

[paul cooke]

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:36, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 16:59 +0100, paul cooke wrote:
> > yet another package added to the "pinned" list... I've just gone round
> > all my boxes locking the existing x-server installs
>
> This is not necessary and might not be what you want. Ubuntu has
> released the old version as an update, so you will have a fixed Xorg
> server now. And when a new good, stable version comes out, it might fix
> a bug in your pinned version. If you pinned it you will have to manually
> un-pin it to get the security update. If you forget to do that you may
> open yourself to a security flaw.

yes, yes... thankyou...

1) My boxes ARE not directly exposed to the external internet...

2) I'm sick and tired of security updates breaking X... I had enough of this 
hassle with other distros and my nvidia cards. Nothing is more annoying than 
having to go round and re-install the nvidia drivers cos of a kernel or X 
update. For some weird reason, I have never, ever, been able to get distro 
supplied nvidia 3D drivers working. I've always had to install them using the 
nvidia .bin file from their website. At least Synaptic makes it easy to "pin" 
a package.

3) this X-server "update" isn't a security update anyway, there's NO 
announcement about it at all... it was just foisted on us...

>
> Jeremiah