And this is why we slackware users stay out of these help discussions. It also reminds me why I have my /home directories on a different partition so I can do clean installs if an upgrade fails without loosing anything important. I did say ... assuming you had already tried this, as I was suggesting trying a more limited upgrade rather than a full dist upgrade given that there were issues causing the apt-get to crash. It just seemed like a good thing to try ... Anyway, I'll go back to lurk mode now, and leave this to the Ubuntu/Debian crowd to sort out. I'll play with my new slackware laptop Slackware and Freespire disks some more instead. anyway - All the best with getting it sorted. Later John R. McPherson wrote:
His problem seemed related, and rather than a full dist upgrade, just replacing X is faster and if it gets the system back ....
This bad patch was only in ubuntu 6.06? But John has already upgraded to 6.10 (according to the subject) and is still having some X-related problem, so I'm guessing he's got a different problem which isn't so easy to fix...
John
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