[wellylug] Debian Sarge Freezing on boot.

[Enkidu]

On 16 Dec 2003 21:45:18 +1300, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm running debian sarge. Ever since I did the recent dist-upgrade which
>included the kde3.1 update (amongst many many things), my box has been
>misbehaving. Every now and then it fails to boot, and freezes at either
>one of two points in the boot process. The only thing that I can do is
>cross fingers and power cycle until it decides it wants to be friends
>again. 
>
>Has anyone else seen anything like this? Let me know otherwise it looks
>like I'll need to post up to the debian lists.
>
No, but isn't dist-upgrade pretty ruthless? Deletes old packages
without prompting, that sort of thing? I did a dist-upgrade of Gnome
which totally poked anything graphical for some reason. These days I
don't use dist-upgrade.

Cheers,

Cliff
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