[Linux-disciples] X.org stops working after upgrade

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:34:42PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> It's not clear that the module failures are what's causing x.org not to
> load. Do you have copies of old xorg.0 startup logs where you can see if
> you had those same errors before?

Odd: look at the contents of /var/log/gdm:

-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1682 2005-07-13 15:25 :0.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1682 2005-07-13 15:25 :0.log.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1682 2005-07-13 15:25 :0.log.2
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1682 2005-07-13 14:58 :0.log.3
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1682 2005-07-13 14:58 :0.log.4

The logs don't stick around very long. And they all contain
the information from a single X session, it looks like.

> Did you try just reconfiguring x.org--I assume you can do
> dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg in Ubuntu?

Yeah, I did that. No luck.

> It sounds like a packaging error, I would try just downgrading.

I'm never sure how to figure out the last version that I was
using that worked. I wish it were possible to do something
like

apt-get install --previouslyInstalledVersion xserver-xorg

Better yet, if you booted your system and everything seemed
all right, you could run the command 'allgood', and dpkg
would remember which versions of every package were working
correctly. Then you could back out to the last allgood spot.

Anyway, back to the instant case. How do I figure out what
the previous version was?

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