[vox-tech] debian woody to sarge upgrade = dead xserver

[Ashleigh Smythe]

Hi ya'll.  Well I was finding packages a bit outdated with woody so I 
thought I'd upgrade my home desktop (Dell Dimension 2400 Pentium 4, 
2.66 GHz) to sarge.  I followed Rick Moen's directions for upgrading 
potato to woody:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/book/view/686

but I of course modified it for woody to sarge and for using CD's 
(had downloaded iso's of sarge).  So I did the following:

1.  	I had my sources.list like this:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free

2.	#apt-get update
	#apt-get dist-upgrade

3.    	I commented out all the deb lines in my sources.list, and 
then ran apt-cdrom add for the first 7 of the sarge cd's.  I checked 
my sources.list and it was updated fine for each cd.

4.	#apt-get update
	#apt-get dist-upgrade

This all seemed to go fine, but upon reboot, startx aborts completely 
and falls back to the command prompt.  There is a long log in 
/var/log/XFree86.0.log with the errors near the end being:

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server 
":0:0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

I'm sorry I can't post the whole thing, I don't have a zip drive on 
my lap top that I'm emailing on right now so the error message is 
stuck on the desktop (no X, no email).  I probably can later tonight 
if it seems necessary.  I've been doing dpkg-reconfigure 
xserver-xfree86 (the XFree86 package is 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) and looking 
at my XF86Config-4 file and the settings seem to be as they was 
before in woody when X was working - I'm using the nv driver which 
worked with my nvidia geforce2 video card.   I've also tried not 
installing the modules that are listed in dpkg-reconfigure 
xserver-xfree86 - like dri and glx but that didn't seem to change 
anything.   One strange thing is that I'm certain there was an option 
about not using framebuffers that I needed to use to get X to work 
with woody, but now I don't see it in the xfree86 reconfigure tool or 
in my XF86Config-4 file - I could be confused about where that was 
though.

Any suggestions?  I've been googling for several hours but I think 
that error message is pretty generic as people seem to be seeing it 
for all kinds of things - mice, keyboards, wrong video cards.

Thanks for any help.

Ashleigh

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Ashleigh B. Smythe
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Nematology
UC Davis
One Shield's Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
(530)754-4321
absmythe at ucdavis.edu
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