apt-get dist-upgrade, and X issues

[NoOp]

On 12/09/2009 04:57 AM, stan wrote:
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> 
> 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 :-(
> 

It won't hurt anything to remove ubuntu-desktop - as long as you
remember to reinstall it prior to doing a release upgrade. You can
reinstall immediately following the remove of gdm.

However, you should not have to remove gdm (or ubuntu-desktop); a normal
'System|Administration|Update Manger|Check' should bring in the updated
2.28.1-0ubuntu2.1. Or from the cli:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

Let us know if that doesn't work for you. You can verify the version you
have installed via Synaptic, or from the cli:

$ apt-cache policy gdm

should look like this when complete:

$ apt-cache policy gdm
gdm:
  Installed: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.1-0ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.28.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages