Re: [SSI-users] Debian Lenny OpenSSI with FreeNX problems

[Scott W. <sc...@sl...>]

Unix made it safe and easy to install multiple versions of applications and
libraries.  Then Debian came along and made it unsafe to install even one
version of an application.  Welcome to Debian.  I don't have any suggestions
for recovering what you had.  Fixing apt muck-ups like that involves a lot
of iterative fussing and has no assurance of success.  A lot of people 
check /usr, the appropriate parts of /var, etc into version control so they
can undo apt muck-ups.  I just run full backups before attempting any apt
operation.  In the future, use the --no-upgrade flag as much as you can get
away with.  apt loves to try to upgrade the universe every time you want
to install one simple app.  That tells it not to.

If you did want to try to muck around with it, I suggest getting on #debian
on FreeNode IRC and asking for help.  Here's a list of the versions
(apt-cache showpkg output) for my packages matching xorg:

http://slowass.net/~scott/tmp/xorg.versions.txt

I'm not even going to talk about how to downgrade packages as I don't want
to be responsibile.  Doing anything with apt is playing with fire.

Wish I had better news for ya.

Regards,
-scott


On  0, "Cumberland, Lonnie" <lon...@ni...> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I was finally able to get our cluster up and running this morning with 5 nodes online for testing.
> 
> All was going well until I tried to install FreeNX server which seems to have replaced some libraries and my Xserver is no longer working from what I can tell.
> 
> I used the Aptitude install freenx.
> 
> Is there a way to roll-back those changes to get the Xserver back up and running as the cluster still seems to be active, but just no Xserver running.
> 
> Thanks and have a great day,
> Lonnie Cumberland, Prof.
> Physicist
>  
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