Well, that sort of worked. I've gotten further than I did this morning except xbmc doesn't start in full screen now. I pressed F11 but that had no effect..... oops, x-server just crashed. This is what is on the screen (after the bootup text): 39991 3781 n l LL pointer dereference at 000 1 [ 9 5 f 9 u _update+0xe/0xe0 [nouveauu [39991.563930] *pde = 45f12067 [39991.563948] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 563970] Modules linked in: bnep rfcomm bluetooth ppdev snd_intel8x d a 9 a a a i _seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device nouveau snd psmouse seri _ d d l drm_kms_helpe r drm parport_pc i2c_algo mxm_wmi wmi video binfmt+misc shpchp lp parport usbhid hid e1 [39991.564021] [39991.564021] Pid: 1374, comm: gnome shell Not tainted 679011U/IBM [39991.564021] EIP: 0060;[,f822b69e>] EFLAGS: 00210292 CPU: 0 3 4021] EIP is at nouveau_fence_update+0xe/0xs0 [nouveau] 3 4 2 0 BX: d94ac040 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000001 [39991.564 2 ] 0 DI: f2575940 EBP: f2b7bd50 ESP: f2b7bd38 3 1 b : : : 00e0 SS: 0068 3 1 g e p f a 2 [39991.564021] Stack: [39991.564021] 00000020 21b7bd50 00000010 d94ac040 000003e8 f2575940 f2b b c f822ba f [39991.564021] 00000000 f2b7bd8c f822bb03 f2575940 0122a347 00976c38 00000000 d94ac040 ] 0 f 5 9 e c a f 00000000 au] veau_fence_wait+0x43/0xd0 [nouveau] e n f u [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon 58/0x70 eau] 38079>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x79/0x2d0 >] ? assert_spin_locked.part.16+0xa/0xa 7d fc 89 ec 5d c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 9 8d 47 3c 3b 47 3c nouveau] SS:ESP 0068:f2b7bd38 I think it'll be easier to restore my rsync copy. What option do you pass it to just overwrite newer files? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Check in /var/log and see if you have dpkg.log. If you do, you should be > able to look at the bottom of the file and see what you just installed. > > At that point you should be able to uninstall, downgrade, upgrade or > properly configure it... what ever you think will best fix your system. > > do, "apt-cache show ", and it will show you if there is more > than one version available to install. If there isn't multiple versions, > you might still have an old version available that you can downgrade to in > /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > To install those, simply do dpkg -i > > After that, if that package upgrade was the one that broke your system, > then it should be back to normal. > > Keep in mind that another upgrade will put the newer package that broke > your system right back on there so you might want to skip any upgrades till > the system tells you that package has been upgraded to a newer version. > > There are ways to tell the system to make a certain version of a package > stay on there till it's told differently, but that can cause problems in > and of itself... mostly just keeping your system from being able to upgrade. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 03/11/2013 11:47 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> I upgraded one file (I don't know what it was) but now after a few >> minutes the graphics die. I just upgaded my system with apt. how can I >> make it like it was before? >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.**org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/**mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >