9.04 xorg badly broken

[NoOp]

On 07/06/2009 10:18 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Synopsis:
> This helped to the extent that I have more up-to-date packages,
> although some indexes are still not loaded.
> I could not follow all of the suggestions ("xfix" does not exist).
> The screen is still black.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 12:44 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 07/04/2009 09:45 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>> I have two systems that I upgraded to 9.04, and the x system is
>>> completely broken on one, and unsatisfactory on the other.
>>
>> What did you upgrade from? Hopefully Intrepid. This shows from 8.04:
>> http://pastebin.ca/1483892 did you try to upgrade directly from 8.04 to
>> 9.04? If so you will indeed have issues - see:
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
>>  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes
>>
>> If that's the case, then download a copy of the 9.04 liveCD & I'll see
>> if I can help you recover.
> 
> That xorg.conf shows 8.04 because that's the starting point.  I tried
> upgrading 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 and it failed miserably because the
> 9.04 live CD could not get a video mode high enough resolution to be
> usable -- limit was 600x800. 

Easiest way to change this is to right click on the bottom panel (it's
usually the top panel that is off screen) and 'Add to panel'| Main Menu.
>From there you can try System|Preferences|Screen Resolution.

 Thus I used the alternative install CD
> and did a fresh install to a new partition.  The resulting X was
> useless, so I imported the xorg.conf from the original root partition,
> which was also pretty useless.

Thanks that explains it.

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>>
>> Boot to recovery mode, select dpkg and repair any broken packages. Once
>> finished, run xfix. Then resume.
> 
> Oh.  I see dpkg is fixing the package sources.  It's upgrading 151 packages.
> Not all indexes could be loaded -- it failed to resolve the names
> us.archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com; I don't know what this
> makes me miss.

Quite a bit actually. Try again & if it still fails to resove those,
then check/modify the sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list). You can do
that via nano:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Make sure that they use:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
instead of http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

Sample:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty restricted main
multiverse universe #Added by software-properties
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates restricted main
multiverse universe #Added by software-properties
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted
universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-security restricted
main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

> 
> There does not appear to be anything named 'xfix' on the rescue menu,
> nor a man page by that name, nor does synaptic on my 9.04 at work know
> about xfix.  There are some xfixes* libraries, but no hint about how
> or when they are used.

Sure there is... Again, boot using 'recovery' (from the grub menu select
the '(recovery mode)' kernel opton); use the down arrow on your keyboard
to scroll down on the recovery mode screen.

To run from a terminal:
$ /usr/share/recovery-mode/options/xfix
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