I had need to reboot our home server last night and when he back back up X was broken. It turns out it's a known issue and creating some symlinks fixed it.

Thankfully I had the iPhone so I could browse the web and find the solution easy enough. I leave my laptop at the office during the week. It was the first of what will no doubt be many saves the iPhone delivers.

I also noted that YouTube videos had the "Smurfing" effect again (people's skin tones are blue!) and Facebook on Firefox 3 would max out the CPU. Cuh-wazy!

The solution to this is to roll back to Flash v9; an upgrade to v10 snuck through and it's a bit buggy. This is easy enough to do via Synaptic, which I've never used before, preferring apt and more recently aptitude.