Hello,
the xserver-xorg packages (version 2:1.18.0-2) have hit debian unstable.
Some of the packages are still missing.
Users of proprietary drivers (fglrx and nvidia) should prepare themselves to wait a little longer.
root@sidbox:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-qxl
xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa
xserver-xorg-video-vmware
The following packages will be upgraded:
bsdutils dash debianutils init init-system-helpers insserv
libblkid1 libfdisk1 libimobiledevice6 libjs-sphinxdoc libldap-2.4-2
libmount1 libsdl2-image-2.0-0 libsdl2-image-dev libsmartcols1
libstd-rust-1.6 libstd-rust-dev libuuid1 mount python3-scipy
python3-sphinx rust-doc rustc sphinx-common util-linux x11-common
x11proto-core-dev xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xwayland
30 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 14 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/61.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 32.8 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Never!
Abort.
greetings
musca
If one was not very carefull how can "restore" the system?
Is it possible with chroot, after xorg is fully uploaded in the repo? (will be possible to install xorg from the chroot ebviroment?)
Thank you
You don't need a chroot, you only need a working tty.
Then you have to reinstall all xorg-packages you installed from sid, from testing or snapshot-archive.
If you have the old packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, you can use those too.
How I can get a tty from grub?
tnank you
Hit e, add a "3" at the end of the line which beginns with linux, hit ctrl +x or F10.
User of nvidia here. Everything went fine for me.
Just needed to go to recovery and reinstall xserver-xorg, which drew a few dependencies. Otherwise keyboard + mouse weren't functioning for me.
Hello,
transition is over after a binary Non-Maintainer-Upload (binNMU) of xserver-xorg-input-evdev, and xserver-xorg is installable again.
qemu users, please make sure you didn't remove xserver-xorg-video-qxl.
Even nvidia-driver 352.79 is already compatible.
greetings
musca
Two systems upgraded, now working good.
xserver-xorg-video-qxl is removed by the d-u, but it can be reinstalled afterward with no problems. New nvidia driver installed as usual in init 3, old module manually removed before restarting X. All looks good. :)
Reinstalling xserver-xorg package worked out for me.
Thx
-DP
For me as well: LXDE (VBox).