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Author: | neutron68 [ Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:08 pm ] |
Post subject: | can I upgrade X to a newer version in R5.5? |
Is is possible to upgrade X to a newer version than came in R5.5? There is a known memory leak in R5.5 (some combination of X and nvidia drivers). Upgrading the nvidia drivers to version 180.51 has not helped the memory leak problem. Now, I'd like to see if upgrading to a newer version of X will stop the memory leak. Is it as easy as... Code: # apt-get install xserver-xorg ??
This page implies it is that easy! Is it correct? |
Author: | manicmike [ Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:32 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: can I upgrade X to a newer version in R5.5? |
Why don't you try it? Performing a backup first of /etc would be a good idea, and making sure you have the .debs to undo any changes would be ideal. Can't really see that upgrading xorg would cause instability, though. Mike |
Author: | neutron68 [ Wed Jul 08, 2009 8:10 pm ] |
Post subject: | will try it |
I am not brave enough to try it on my "production" box, but I do have a test machine I could load up with R5.5 and try the X upgrade. If it blows up, it won't be a big deal. I was hoping to see if any of the seasoned experts have tried such things and could tell me if this is THE way to do this or if there is a better way. (I presume that Cecil has to upgrade X with each release, so he must know the best way to do it.) Eric |
Author: | neutron68 [ Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:06 pm ] |
Post subject: | tried it - BOOM |
Wow. Doing that breaks things pretty good! I didn't change the default R5.5 sources.list file at all so apt-get was pointing at unstable repositories. There was an error towards the end of the process and so I shut down the machine and called it a day. Today when I booted up, I got the INT: Id "c7" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes, over and over. I can't SSH in and I can't even get to a command line from the keyboard. ALT-F1, etc. doesn't give you a new virtual shell. For now, I'm not sure how to get any sort control of the system. *IF* I can get back into the system, should I change the sources.list file to point to stable repos, and try again? Eric |
Author: | tjc [ Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:53 pm ] |
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See the disaster recovery pages on the wiki for how to boot the system using the install CD and then switch over to the HD with a console prompt. Say this one: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=InstallDiskAsRescueCD Or maybe just this one: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=BootToSingleUserMode |
Author: | neutron68 [ Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:28 pm ] |
Post subject: | try again |
Thanks for the tips TJC. I ended up taking the easy way out - reinstalling. Since this is a test machine I just went forward and reinstalled - nothing lost. So, I just changed the sources.list file to point to stable sources and tried the "apt-get install xserver-xorg" command as root. It downloaded a few files, asked me if I wanted to keep my current version or if I wanted to download the maintainers current version. I said get the maintainers current versoin. It bombed out with some errors. I rebooted. Knoppmyth booted up and I have a Mythtv menu as normal. I just checked to see what version of X is in there now.... It's the same old 2007 version of X Server. Nothing changed, it appears. So, how do you update X to a newer version? |
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