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Bug 132605 - no rollback possible with latest xorg-server upgrade.
Summary: no rollback possible with latest xorg-server upgrade.
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 132598
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2006-05-07 11:37 UTC by Robert Persson
Modified: 2006-05-07 12:00 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Persson 2006-05-07 11:37:46 UTC
I have just performed an emerge -u world, which included an upgrade from xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 to xorg-server-1.0.2-r4. Unfortunately this left me with an xserver which was unusable because the display was completely mangled. However I was unable to roll back to where I was because 1.0.2-r3 had already been removed from portage.

I then tried to switch to the only other available ebuild -- xorg-server-1.0.99.902-r1 -- but this would not even start at all. In other words I am completely unable to launch an xserver at the moment.

Please could you do two things:
1. Restore xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 to portage immediately. You may not like it, but it works for me while the versions currently in portage definitely don't.
2. Make sure that, in future, the rollback path is not removed so quickly for any upgrade or security update to any package whatsoever. Irreversible system-hosing updates is the Microsoft way. It shouldn't be the gentoo way.
Comment 1 UncleOwen 2006-05-07 11:46:03 UTC
dup of 132598
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-07 11:59:38 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132598 ***
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-07 12:00:42 UTC
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