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

[Jonathan Stickel]

Ashleigh Smythe wrote:
> Kevin Murakoshi wrote:
> 
>> On a weird hunch what if you use "xinit" to start X instead of
>> "startx"? Maybe your window manager is fucking up....
>>
>> --kevin (i'll fix this, if it's the last thing i dooooo!!!)
>>
> 
> Sorry Kevin, the hunch didn't work - I get the same error.  I appreciate 
> your valiant efforts though!  One thing that is making me think I should 
> do a clean sarge install is that when I do dpkg -l, there are loads of 
> woody stuff still on my system - even lots of woody X stuff - why 
> wouldn't those have been upgraded to sarge? Could it be that my upgrade 
> was not as successful as I think and I have a mixed installation?  I 
> can't really think of any reason not to just do a clean install - I have 
> the CD's so it should be pretty easy.  I guess that wouldn't uncover the 
> reason why the upgrade didn't work, but frankly my dissertation has to 
> be finished by December and I need a working system ASAP.
> 

Sounds like a reasonable LERT call to me 
(http://www.lugod.org/projects/lert/).  But beware: the responding 
person may not want to work with Debian ;)

Jonathan