Re: xorg not installing
On Thursday 02 November 2006 16:23, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> OK, so at least we know that it hangs in the post-installation script.
> This script is located at /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.postinst but
> unfortunately it is quite complicated. You can check /var/log/dpkg.log,
> but it will probably only tell you that this script is run and give no
> further information or error messages. You can try to edit the script
> and change the line "set -e" (directly after the comment header) to
>
> set -xe
>
> The commands which are executed when the script is run will be echoed to
> stdout with this setting. Maybe that will give you a clue where/why it
> hangs if you try the upgrade again.
With set -xe, it seems to freeze after this portion of the output:
++ UPSTREAM_VERSION=7.1.0
++ CMD='discover --type-summary display'
++ eval discover --type-summary display
+++ discover --type-summary display
That's the last line of output. If I try to reinstall discover, however,
aptitude simply tries to install xorg again and it freezes again. apt-get
does the same. There's also no change if I do an aptitude clean and then try
to download the package again.
> Maybe the postinst script gets stuck because some other xorg package is
> not installed properly; you might want to run
>
> aptitude search '~b'
>
> to check for further broken packages.
Well, that finds a whole bunch that have a status of B. Joy. :-) Some are
KDE packages, which seem to be working fine nonetheless. None look like
something that xorg should be depending on.
I also tried just now uninstalling xserver-xorg completely (and its half-dozen
or so dependencies) and reinstalling them. Once again, it freezes in exactly
the same place.
If I uninstall it again and try to install discover, it's already at the
latest version. I then tried installing xorg again, this time specifying
testing as the release. It ignored me and installed the sid version again,
which once again broke.
I am still confused. :-(
> I could also imagine that closing down X might help to get the upgrade
> through. However, I realize that you are reluctant to do this and I
> cannot promise you that X will start again after such an experiment.
After my testing above, I'm fairly sure it would die a horrible death. :-)
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