Yesterday I seriously borked my little LXDE netbook installation. It is fixed now, but I thought I would share what happened and what not to do at this time.
There is a transition in progress. For a couple of days I was seeing the lxsession-edit package being removed during du, and then reinstalled during the du. But there was no problem with performance of my netbook. Being curious, I started looking and found that there were version 0.5.1-1 packages available in debian for some of the lxsession packages, and I somehow managed to force them onto my system. Big mistake! As a result, I lost my LXDE deskop completely, and was unable to revert back to the current working version 0.4.9.3.siduction versions due to a hung "pipe" problem in dpkg.
Of course, if I had done a little research before trying to install the 0.5.1-1 packages, I would have found
this.
After I slept on the problem overnight, I was able to fix it by commenting out the debian repos, cleaning the /var/cache/apt/archive, purging everything lxde, and reinstalling it which it took it back (mostly) to 0.4.9.3. Fortunately all my user configuration files were undamaged so once the working versions were installed, it all works fine again. So leave your LXDE system alone and I would expect it to update correctly when the bugs are out of the 0.5x version packages. Here is the working configuration:
root@tosh205:/# apt-cache policy lxde
lxde:
Installed: 5
Candidate: 5
Version table:
*** 5 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
4+nmu2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
root@tosh205:/# apt-cache policy lxsession
lxsession:
Installed: 0.4.9.3.siduction.4
Candidate: 0.5.1-1
Version table:
0.5.1-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
*** 0.4.9.3.siduction.4 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/extra/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
root@tosh205:/# apt-cache policy lxsession-edit
lxsession-edit:
Installed: 0.4.9.3.siduction.4
Candidate: 0.4.9.3.siduction.4
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.3.siduction.4 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/extra/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
root@tosh205:/# apt-cache policy lxsession-data
lxsession-data:
Installed: 0.4.9.3.siduction.4
Candidate: 0.4.9.3.siduction.4
Version table:
*** 0.4.9.3.siduction.4 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/extra/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.4.9.2-1+siduction2 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/main i386 Packages
root@tosh205:/# apt-cache policy lxpanel
lxpanel:
Installed: 0.7.2-1
Candidate: 0.7.2-1
Version table:
*** 0.7.2-1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.7.0.siduction.8 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/extra/ unstable/main i386 Packages
