9.04 xorg badly broken

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Synopsis: packages are now up to date.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:14 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>  [ BIG SNIP]

>
> ....
>>>
>>> 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:
>

Didn't need to do all that.  Retrying got dpkg to run clean and access
all sources and indexes.  Still no xfix.  I was able to install
openssh-server and can log in with X forwarding from my laptop and run
things like synaptic, so things are going better.

But there's still no X.

++ kevin

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD