On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Kevin R. Bullock wrote: > 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. Yeah, that's what I found too. I ended up sticking with X v3... until I'm ready to go lock stock and barrel. > 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'. That's just about exactly the way things have been here -- nice to know i'm not the lone ranger! Phil M -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous