apt-get dist-upgrade, and X issues

[stan]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 11:58:32AM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/06/2009 08:50 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Sun, 12/6/09, stan <> wrote:
> ...
> >> 
> >> My problem seesm to be related to hal not starting up properly,
> >> gien that X now defaults to starting with no valid input devices,
> >> this will result in exactly what I am seeing. Personally, I think
> >> this is a bad default.
> >> 
> > That's exactly what my issue appears to be.  The last two links above
> > address that issue to some extent.  Have you tried either or both
> > yet?  Would like to know how it turned out if you do. Modifying your
> > xorg.conf file is safe if you make a backup of your origina which you
> > can restore from recovery mode boot in case you can't get back into X
> > windows.
> ...
> 
> Perhaps:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/491483
> [Since failsafe-x was enabled in karmic it starts if gdm is disabled and
> kdm is used. (low graphics mode error)]
> 
> Note: ran across this today while checking what the new gdm update was
> related to.
> 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
> Publishing details
> 
>     * Published on 2009-11-30
> Changelog
> 
> gdm (2.28.1-0ubuntu2) karmic-proposed; urgency=low
> 
>   * Don't respawn gdm on failure; this lets us capture X failures
> instead and
>     trigger the bulletproof X handler here.  LP: #441638.
>   * re-export any XORGCONFIG value passed to the upstart job, needed to
>     complete integration with bulletproof X.  LP: #474806.

As a followup, I thought I could "fix" this problem by simply apt-get
remove'ing gdm. However doing so will also remove ubuntu-dsktop, which
sounds like somehting that I don;t think I want to do :-(

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