Hi - I am a fairly new Debian user & have been running 3.0 for about 3 months.
Over the weekend I decided to try and upgrade to Unstable on a whim and ran into some problems.
Firstly, during the upgrade, apt-get managed to get into a dependency loop when it tried to replace libpam-modules and (after googling for help) I was forced to use the Force-LoopBreak option to continue.
Eventually the update finished, but now I can't start X. I get an error message to the effect of 'client cannot connect to x server due to XDM- AUTHENTICATION-1 key'.
During the update process, apt-get displayed a warning about the fact that it couldn't restart xdmwithout killing my X session. To get around tis, I halted the update and CTRL-ALT-F2'd to a new virtual console and carried on from there.
Typically, this all happened on my home machine so I don't have the exact error messages to hand. Sigh - I have become exactly the kind of user that winds me up no end at work.
Anyone got any ideas? I had thought about uninstalling all things X and reinstalling them again in case there was some kind of verson conflict. This seems a bit bit drastic, though.
Is it just a case of needing to generate an XDM-AUTHENTICATION key? How do I do this?
Thanks for your help,