slapt-get (gslapt)

dhbiker · 02-15-2006, 04:25 AM

Hi all,

I following some security emails this morning I decided it was time to upgrade my packages again. I ran gslapt and upgraded pretty much everything but the kernel stuff.

Everything seemed to go fine and I thought I'd better log out as I'd upgraded fluxbox as well. Once I logged out the xserver failed to start

have I completely hosed my system or is there any way to avoid having to re-install everything

When running startx the Nvidia logo appears briefly and then disappears

Thanks for the help

satinet · 02-15-2006, 04:31 AM

i would at least try and run the xorgconfig tool 1st before getting to worried.

you can always roll the packages back by changing your sources to 10 rather than current...

dhbiker · 02-15-2006, 04:47 AM

Ah yes, I'd completely forgotten about that

I'll try rolling my sources back to 10.2

dhbiker · 02-15-2006, 12:40 PM

Well I managed to get an xserver without rolling everything back by installing cairo - but the xserver only runs if I do startx when logged in as root

I'm currently trying to get everything back to 10.2 state, is there a quicker way of doing this other than each package individually? does dist-upgrade do an automatic downgrade if I point it at 10.2 instead of current?

sklitzz · 02-15-2006, 02:14 PM

Try running xorgconfig as user

dhbiker · 02-15-2006, 02:18 PM

I've managed to get it working ok again by downgrading everything to 10.2 and rebooting

xorgconfig isn't much good IMO, it always seems to cock up things for me so I prefer to edit it by hand

Thanks for the help!

egag · 02-15-2006, 02:26 PM

try to use "xorgsetup" next time.
it's doing ok here.
( make a copy of the xorg.conf file before you run xorgsetup. )

...and i fail to see the use of slapt get...
just download what you need and use the pkgtools. ( saves a lot of time... ;-) )

egag

satinet · 02-16-2006, 02:31 AM

well, pkgtools or whatever, my point was just that you can use packagemanegement tools to go backwards as well as forwards. if that makes sense. but yes, you can just use your slack install disks

gargamel · 02-16-2006, 04:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dhbiker

I've managed to get it working ok again by downgrading everything to 10.2 and rebooting

xorgconfig isn't much good IMO, it always seems to cock up things for me so I prefer to edit it by hand

Thanks for the help!

I agree, and I just don't get it why the Xorg people don't include a better tool like SuSE's SAX. Compared to SAX everything else SUCKS. It's open source and could be used, but they don't.

(Don't get me wrong: In general the Xorg people are doing an awesome job.)

gargamel

marco.uk · 02-17-2006, 03:27 AM

xorgcfg is not too bad at all. Never had problems with it and you also get a nice GUI.