On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > How 'bout XFree 4? I had it upgrade itself in the midst of some other > upgrades to potato (not a dist-upgrade) and it broke good, so I ended up > ditching something and going back to 3.whatever in potato. Is this > smoother if you do the whole nine yards in one shot -- a "clean upgrade?" Doing an upgrade to XFree 4 on a potato system can break things easily, because so many things used to depend on xlib6g (in potato) that now (in woody) depend on xlibs (they changed the package name). If X is part of your upgrade, you should do the whole thing at once. Once you've upgraded the packages, you should reconfigure X before you try to run it. (Just in case, disable [xgk]dm before the upgrade.) Also note that a plain dist-upgrade might not get XFree 4 -- you might want to play with dselect to get everything to upgrade 'cleanly'. Pacem in Terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa Kevin R. Bullock