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

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?

Sometimes the last version will still be in /var/cache/apt/archives, if
you haven't cleaned it recently, and you can just dpkg -i it from there.
Debian has snapshot.debian.net, which allows you to specify an apt
repository from any arbitrary date (this could easily be integrated into
your 'allgood' idea). You could also just look at the changelog for the
package and see the version number and date of the package when it was
last working and revert to that.
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