Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:27:29AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:57:03AM -0500, hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

why don't you boot sarge, chroot into etch and install a kernel from
inside the chroot? I think udev wants a kernel >= 2.6.15, IIRC.

Actually, it turns out that aptitude *&had* managed to install the new
kernel -- it just hadn't put it into the boot menu -- a probelm easily
fixed from the sarge system.

great!


I now have an etch with networking, which I can use aptitude on, but
whose X doesn't come up properly. startx brings me to the black screen
of death, xdm permits me to enter username and password, blanks the
screen as if it is doing something, and then returns to its login
screen. gdm doesn't even get to login -- it just gives the black screen
of death.

I looks as if I will have to investigate another day -- my regular users
are showing up.

one step at a time eh? of course you nkow the drill, post the X logs.

good luck

I made no changes since my remarks quoted above. But when I booted this
morning, X did come up, XDM gave me a login window, and it allowed me
to log in and have access to my usual home directory. But it did give
me gnome instead of icewm (which was my default under gdm).

So I now know that X works, that it recognises the screen, the keyboard,
the mouse, and so forth.

When I switched to the text-mode console using ctl-alt-F1, it gave me
that, and it worked properly too.

But all was not well. When I switched back (using ctl-alt-F7) it gave
me a scrambled screen -- lots of horizontal streaks. The various
window decorations were present, but in multiple copies, and each
mostly obscured by the horizontal bars. Evidently the screen size in
its frame buffer did not match the screen size it was using.

I could ctl-alt-F1 back to the text cosole, which worked, and kill a
carefully chosen process, and return to the X screen to be greeted by
another login window, which worked too.

sing gdm instead of xdm still gives the black screen of death instead of
a login window.

Also -- is it suspicious that there were no package updates in etch this
morning?

-- hendrik


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