[SlugLUG] Help Me Choose: Part 2

[Sean Kellogg]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:44, Rohan Sheth wrote:
> So I installed Debian last night using the etch beta 3 installer.  I
> had to pass something fun to the boot parameter in order for the
> installer to recognize my cdrom drive...and then I was off.

Excellent!

> After it finished its base install, i swapped testing for unstable in
> sources.list and then did an apt-get dist-upgrade.  After that I was
> done I wanted to play around in X so I tried to install xserver-xorg.
> This is when things went funny.

Sigh.

> During the "configuring" of the installation process I get this very
> nice looking error about how something cannot be a null value.  This is
> placed with an OK button that when pushed simply brings the same screen
> back.  I got a little frustrated and checked google but found very
> little help that I could understand.

My first suggestion is the same as I've said before....  did you keep the 
testing and stable repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list file?  I 
suggest adding those lines back in, doing the 'apt-get update' 'apt-get 
dist-upgrade' thing and see what happens.

If that does nothing, it would be great if you could provide a bit more text 
from the error message.  dpkg is usually very good about error messages once 
you learn how to read them :)

-Sean

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