Dapper to Edy upgrade successful

[H.S.]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 31/10/06, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>>>I most certainly have enough disk space, and I let the upgrade process
>>>finish. After it finished all was fine, but when I reset the machine,
>>>X would not start.
>>>
>>>Dotan Cohen
>>
>>
>>What was the error message you got? Also, what video card do you have
>>installed?
> 
> 
> Something about X being unable to start. The video card is built into
> the no-name motherboard.


It should have given you an ncurses (text based) prompt asking if you 
want to see what went wrong. Did you? In the messages it shows, you 
should look for lines beginning with "EE".

To see what kind of video card you have, look at the output of lspci 
command.

In your /etc/X11, do you have any files beginning with xorg? Find this 
out with:
$> ls /etc/X11/xorg*


> 
>>When X cannot start, what happens in a console if you try to do apt-get
>>update and apt-get upgrade? I could be the xorg related packages that
>>were kept back and need to be upgraded.
>>
> 
> 
> Wouldn't know! I downloaded and burned the latest Kubuntu 6.10 at the
> university and installed it last night. Installed without a hitch. Not
> only was the system upgraded, but most of my settings stayed the way
> they were. I only had to reenable Hebrew support, reinstall Firefox,
> and a few other minor things. very nice indeed. I should note that the
> system fires up in about half the time it used to take.

Have you since tried to do 'apt-get udpate' and 'apt-get -s 
dist-upgrade'? If not try it now and paste the output of the second command.

->HS