Eric,
 
No, just an old Pentium 32 bit machine. That is what is so strange.
 
However, I did manage to solve it by further digging on the ubuntu forums...https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/+bug/151045. I am not running ubuntu, just debian.
 
The problem is with libz.so. In /usr/local/lib I have:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff  13 2007-11-01 17:39 /usr/local/lib/libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff  13 2007-11-01 17:39 /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 85K 2007-11-01 17:39 /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
 
In /usr/lib I have:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 2009-08-13 16:37 /usr/lib/libz.so -> libz.so.1.2.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 2009-08-13 16:37 /usr/lib/libz.so.1 -> libz.so.1.2.3.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80K 2009-08-04 11:54 /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3

A newer version of libz is in /usr/lib as is in /usr/local/lib. I changed /usr/local/lib to be:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff  24 2009-11-10 12:33 /usr/local/lib/libz.so -> /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff  24 2009-11-10 12:34 /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 -> /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 85K 2007-11-01 17:39 /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1.2.3

and rebooted. X came up with no problems and gdm is puring along. I will see what happens with the next update, but I will probably just cop libz.so.1.2.3.3 over the libz.so.1.2.3 and put the links back.
 
Any ideas on how to figure out where the libz.so.1.2.3 got into /usr/local/lib?
 
Mark

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
is your machine a 64bit machine? gzopen64 makes it sound like a 64bit binary...

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
I performed an apt-get update/upgrade on my Debian testing machine, and now my X server is dead. This is the error I got:
 
X.Org X Server 1.6.5
Release Date: 2009-10-11
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.30.8-dsa-ia32 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux beagle 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 26 01:16:22 UTC 2009 i686
Build Date: 13 October 2009  11:25:51AM
xorg-server 2:1.6.5-1 (buildd@murphy.debian.org)
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Nov 10 11:35:36 2009
/usr/bin/X: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpciaccess.so.0: undefined symbol: gzopen64

I googled the last line and did not find anything relevant or any solution.
 
Has anyone seen this problem before, and hopefully, a solution?
 
Thanks!
 
Mark

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