wilcal Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 I'm just passing on the suggestion that everyone backup your critical data and configuration before applying the latest xorg updates to your Mandriva 2006 system(s). Earlier this week Ubuntu went through cardiac arrest when their update put xorg out of action. I've just updated my two Mandriva 2006 systems and on one of them the xorg, after the latest update, failed to open. That leaves you with no GUI and at the command line. I do a mirror image copy partition a -> partition b (backup) and needed that when xorg didn't open. All seems fine now. Just be cautious. Maybe some folks here can post that that've applied the xorg updates to their systems without any problems. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 For me the x.org-update worked without problems on my notebook (haven't updated my other machines yet, since they are not connected to the internet, but will try to do) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 I've updated also Xorg without any problems on my IBM R31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonsox Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 It hosed my system a couple of days ago to the point where not even creating a new user from root would solve the issue. So I reinstalled everything, updated, and it took this time. I don't think it interacted with the ATI drivers well or something. No idea. But everything is fine at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 Installed the latest xorg updates on 2006 from the urpmi repositories, no problems. Even updated the kernel too to 2.6.12.25mdk. All my machines are up-to-date, mixture of ATI and NVIDIA, all working well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 Same here. Kernel 2.6.12.25mdk? Will check it out later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 Yup :P I'm glad that they now provide different kernel sources, than doing what they used to do, and forcing you to upgrade your kernel to match your newly upgraded kernel-source. Means you aren't forced to upgrade the kernel or kernel-source like you were before. [ian@europa ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel && uname -a kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6.12.25mdk-1-1mdk kernel-source-2.6.12.25mdk-1-1mdk Linux europa.comprze.com.pl 2.6.12-25mdk-i686-up-4GB #1 Fri Aug 18 13:59:05 MDT 2006 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.80GHz unknown GNU/Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 Ah oke. That explains why my kernel-source wasn't updated this morning after I updated with urpmi --auto-select Thanks for the info, Ian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 29, 2006 Report Share Posted August 29, 2006 The last kernel they did it with was kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12.22mdk or something along those lines for naming convention. Then they went with individual kernel-sources after this so you don't get the 2.6-2.6 bridge. I guess they thought it would work for all kernels from 2.6 to 2.6.12.22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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