I am *SO* going to turn off automatic updates.

[Keith David Godat]

On Thu, 2006-24-08 at 13:10 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> Currently can't use Ubuntu.
> 
> Login screen doesn't come up. Some kind of X server error.
> 
> This worked perfectly for MONTHS until some update yesterday.
> 
> I remembered 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and went through the 
> steps, sticking with the defaults as usual.
> 
> Still doesn't work.
> 
> Back on Windows now.  If I go back to Ubuntu it will be without 
> automatic updates thankyouverymuch.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chanchao
> 
There was a bug in one of the updated packages.  To fix that you just
need to go through these steps:


> sudo apt-get install wget
> 
> Type this on ONE line :
> sudo wget -c
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-core_1.0.2-0ubuntu10_i386.deb
> 
> Now the recovery fix itself ( reinstall the previous package )
> dpkg -i xserver-xorg-core_1.0.2-0ubuntu10_i386.deb
> 
> Then :
> /etc/init.d/gdm start

I found those instructions from a previous thread about this problem, and I put them into a .txt file just in case I came across that problem.  

Hope this helps!
Keith