[Musix-users] Re: Musix 0.50 (Problem with X)

Thu Aug 17 07:02:06 CEST 2006

Hello,
I one had the same problem ! my X crashed and never worked again..
It was after I made an : apt-get dist-upgrade
This does not happen only with Musix but with all kind of Debian systems.
It happens between some X config files are moving placed between the
stable and testing I think. So drivers (Nvidia only??) do not find the
appropriate files. The first time it happens I could do nothing
because I didn't know this was the problem. After I looked on the
net..and found topics describing that. One solution was to make sym
links from the new place to the old one.

Hmm..don't really remember other details.

Hope it helped !

> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:33:16 +0200
> From: Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Musix-users] Re: Musix 0.50
> To: Musix GNU+Linux users list <musix-users at lists.ourproject.org>
> Message-ID: <200608170033.17124.marcospcmusica at gmail.com>
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> El Jueves, 17 de Agosto de 2006 02:46, greg h escribió:
>       > synaptic was the name of the program that i used to upgrade,
>
> Ah, ok.
>
>       > and the
>       > options were set to smart upgrade so i only updated the packages that
>       > were already installed.
>
> Mmm. I never used this option.. also, I use apt-get in a konsole.
>
>       > i havent heard of apt-get, nor would i know
>       > how to use it,
>
> It's not hard... to upgrade the system:
>
> apt-get update
>
> apt-get upgrade
>
> (but it would be better to read the manual: man apt-get)
>
>       > as for the xdm when it crashes... well, ill reboot
>       > after updating my packages, and then i get a note saying the xdm dont
>       > work and then its a back screen with the login box (text)... and then
>       > it runs as if it were in dos or something
>
>
> Well, this could be easy to solve if I could know what files did you had
> into /etc/rcS.0/
>
> As instance, it should be a file called: S61kdmset
>
> And, also KDM should be installed on your system, to know it, type
>
> apt-cache policy kdm
>
> Then, we could make X to work.
>
>       > Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica at gmail.com> wrote:  El Miércoles,
> 16 de Agosto de 2006 23:45, greg h escribió:
>       > > hi this is greg i have problems when im getting the english package
>       > > updates....
>       >
>       > What packages?
>       >
>       > You can tell us by typing your command into konsole (as instance
>       > apt-get install your_package), and the copy this by selecting with
>       > the mouse, then pasting here into the mail.
>       >
>       > > i cant remember the name but i update all the debian
>       > > packages
>       >
>       > apt-get upgrade?
>       >
>       > apt-get dist-upgrade?
>       >
>       > > and then my X display manager crashes
>       >
>       > It opens and then crashes?
>       >
>       > did you tried with videoconfig.sh script?
>       >
>       > > and i cant repair it
>       > > so i have to reinstall musix. is there another way to update musix
>       > > safely?
>       >
>       > MM... I dont know what are you doing: if using synaptic or apt-get,
>       > and I dont know what packages are you upgrading
>       >
>       > > when the XDM goes out i find myself to be in a DOS kind of mode,
>       > > still learning the language but not quite there yet
>       >
>       > If you are using Musix 0.50, you can type menu
>       >
>       > A menu will appear, and you can go to videoconfig.sh, or something
>       > else.
>       >
>       > > Sean Edwards wrote:
>       > > According to the change log quoted below, it is
>       > > possible to update old musix versions. Where is the
>       > > documentation on how to do this?
>       > >
>       > > https://www.musix.org.ar/wiki/index.php/Changelog-en
>       > >
>       > > Musix version until now, also, 0.50 can update old
>       > > Musix versions, as instance Musix 0.40 could be
>       > > updated without re-install all the system.