Is X working in Intrepid?

Hi,

Quick question: is X working on Intrepid right now? I have a spare partition for it (with its own /home) so I don't really mind it being enormously broken.

I'm just bored with a stable release, I think. I need some breakage.

"Working" yes ;).

There's a bug in libxfont1 which mysteriously stops X from loading for some people (%*$@#*#$!!#), and it's a known issue, so you'll want to put a hold on it before moving to Intrepid. Otherwise it works just fine.

I might just not update that package, then :)

Could someone please post your Intrepid sources.list? I seem to be having some trouble with mine (as in:they won't load).

lol excuse my lack of knowledge, but what is X?

I read people talking about "X" all the time but I never really understood what it was, or if was anything specifically.

Thanks.

Basically, the graphics. Seeing windows and a pointer instead of white letters on a black background.

Specifically, it refers to the X Window System, if you wanna look into it further.

X is going great the lib file was updated this morning (12 hours ago):guitar:

Cary

I did a fresh install of hardy in VirtualBox last night and then changed the word hardy to intrepid in the sources.list file. X is working for me, including VB guest extensions.

Has anybody have held back packages gcc 4.2 and gpp 4.2 ? It seems like its been like that from the begining for me, or am I doing something wrong ? Thanks, Cecil

cecilpierce said: Has anybody have held back packages gcc 4.2 and gpp 4.2 ?

It seems like its been like that from the begining for me, or am I doing something wrong ? Thanks, Cecil

I've had gcc 4.2 held back for a while as well.

@Bou, here is my Ubuntu Intrepid sources.list

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Intrepid Ibex_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ intrepid main restricted

See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to

newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted

Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the

distribution.

deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates main restricted

N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu

team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to

your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in

universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security

team.

deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid universe deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid universe deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe

N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu

team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to

your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in

multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu

security team.

deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid multiverse deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates multiverse

Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'

repository.

N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as

extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes

newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.

Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review

or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's

'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is

offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu

users.

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner

deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu intrepid partner

deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-security main restricted deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-security main restricted deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-security universe deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-security universe deb http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-security multiverse deb-src http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ intrepid-security multiverse

As for X, it stopped working for me about a week ago. I just did an upgrade a few hours ago, and that fixed it. So, as of now, X is working fine.

Yes, libxfont1 working for me too now. :) Thanks for telling us about it.

As for held back packages, I currently have: cpp-4.2 doc-central dwww gcc-4.2-base libgfortran2

Guess what I'm doing when I get home from work :D

I am in Intrepid now. Just upgrading all the packages again. Hopefully, X will work. (It isn't at the moment, using lynx).

X works now :-)

Is the best way to get intrepid to upgrade from a hardy install (say sudo update-manager -d) or to replace hardy with intrepid in sources.list? Is there any other way?

zorkerz said: or to replace hardy with intrepid in sources.list? Is there any other way?

Do that