Segfaults in weird places after aptitude update && aptitude upgrade on clean alternate gutsy install

[NoOp]

On 02/21/2008 08:19 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
> I've done this three times now, so I know it's not me :-)
> After an update my system has weird segfaults, X is unusable.
> 
> Sorry it's long, but I'm trying not to leave details out since I can't
> clearly define the issue.
> 
> Start with a 7.10 alternate cd and an Athlon 2500+ nVidia chipset
> computer.
> 
> Format (ext3 /boot, XFS / partition and swap partiton on LVM) 
> 
> Install.   Everything works fine after the initial installation.
> 
> Do sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
> 
> It requests a reboot when completed.
> 
> After the reboot X won't start - /etc/gdm/failsafeXServer segfaults...
> 
> aptitude update works
> aptitude isntall someRandomPackage might work - but shows segfaults
> e.g.
>    Need to get blah blah blah  
>    Writing extended state information.... Done
>    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>    Selecting previously deselected blah blah
> 
> I had a hazy guess that it might be because of the restricted modules -
> I have an nVidia Geforce 2 card in this machine that under dapper used
> the nvidia-legacy drivers.  Gutsy seemed to install the regular nVidia
> driver rather than the legacy ones (or at least the name didn't
> obviously show it was using a 'legacy' driver) when I did it the first
> time, so this time I ignored the restricted drivers pop-up.   Oddly
> though, /var/log/dpkg log seems to show linux-restricted-modules as  a
> package that was updated.   Maybe I don't understand all the cases that
> would be used.  I mean, it's nVidia ethernet etc as well.
> 
> It doesn't seem to be related to the LVM or the XFS file system.  I can
> use the file system fine.   I can use wget to pull down a web page.
> 
> I'd like suggestions on 
> 
> 1 - how do I better identify the problem so I can file a useful bug
> report
> 
> 2 - how do I fix this so the system is usable
> 
> Thanks for reading,
> 
> Brian
> 
> 

Perhaps try:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and perhaps also

sudo aptitude install -f

and see if those clean it up?