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

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:16:17PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Sometimes I find you need to do apt-get install xserver-xorg=x.y.z
> rather than the -t option. I'm not entirely sure why there is a
> distinction (actually, I'm entirely unsure), but that seems to be how it
> works.

I'm glad that I'm not alone in my confusion.

I did as you suggested, did an 'apt-cache policy
xserver-xorg', found the stable version of xserver-xorg, and
tried to downgrade to that. Unfortunately, installing the
stable version of x.org would require me to downgrade tons
and tons of other stuff, and I'm virtually certain that
would create more problems than it would solve. Well, not
'virtually certain,' but 'pretty damn sure.'

Maybe this is a lesson for the future: save my apt archives
off to a local repository, or a repository on my desktop
machines downstairs, so that I can downgrade whenever
necessary. That might consume a bit much disk space, but
it's an idea.

In the meantime ... well, I'll keep messing around, but in
the worst case I'll just wait until someone fixes
xserver-xorg. Thanks for all your help.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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