SID package warning..

[falldown]

Well out of embarrassment I posted here..
I just did a

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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Everything went fine except for a ??"libpango"?? package.
It ask me if I wanted to keep installed package or maintainers package.
Not knowing what to do I did maintainers package.

after reboot.. x will not start.
I drop into tty and

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sudo startx
I get

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/ect/x11/xini/xserver: 3: exec: /user/bin/x: not found
xiniti: unable to connect to xserver: connection refused

So how do I find what I installed and how to fix it?

[VastOne]

Did you use smxi to install nVidia drivers?  I would just use smxi again to install the nVidia drivers or whatever method you used to install them...

I am not too sure if the issue is related to libpango

I just did a total dist-upgrade and never saw this... is libpango part of a package you installed?

FWIW, I always keep my version and do not let the maintainers package update it, or I look at the differences and decide from there

[falldown]

It is my testing partition VastOne.
All default settings and drivers.
If anything I will reinstall.
I was just wanting to warn others about a possible "unstable" package.

I was busy with other things during the upgrade (big no-no)

side note.. what happened to the cool smileys??

[Sector11]

Interesting, I just did an update/dist-upgrade because of this thread (I needed to anyway) and saw nothing like this.

It's not NVIDIA related - it's associated with pango - text rendering.

cool smilies are back - nice. 

[VastOne]

Interesting ... I have libpango-perl installed and I believe it is part of GMB. It was updated along with all of Perl a couple of days ago and today on a new install but I did not see the maintainer message.

The smilieys should be fixed... I inadvertently changed them and did not realize it... my bad!

[jedi]

I also have libpango-perl installed.  I thought it was part of a text rendering thing for Internationalization though....

I also after reading these posts did an apt-get update/apt-get dist-upgrade with no issues.  Also noticed the update to Grub 2.00-12...

Everything working fine, no issues here at all.