Author: Mike Burrows Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] X is sick
>>Thanks. I don't suppose there is any way i can roll back to sarge is
>>there?
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>Yes, edit your sources.list file and change them all to sarge, and then try an
>aptitude uptdate/upgrade, it may be able to fix things. You may have to
>manually download and forceably install any debs you know you changed. I
>don't know how easy this will be.
>
>The upgrade is pretty painless actually, only 5% of D-A.org members had any
>serious problems so far from a poll of 304 Debian administrators.
>
>
> Well I really screwed it up this time. I rolled back the system and had
it running using kdm but apps like thunderbird would not run. So I
thought I would have another go at a dist-upgrade. During the upgrade, I
got the message that the xserver might not install. This proved to be
the case so I went ahead and tried to install xserver-xorg using
aptitude install. for some reason the system then uninstalled virtually
every installed package and of course tried to take out the running
kernel. I stopped it doing that but now when I try a rebuild the system
using apt (aptitude has been removed) I can't get past the remove the
kernel due to unmet dependencies thing. Looks like I'm down to buying a
new hard drive to preserve my data unless there are any other options
