Re: xserver-xfree86 4.0.1-6 upgrade

["Chung, Ha-Nyung" <alita@kldp.org>]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:54:50PM -0500, Mike wrote:
> Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> > Hi. Today's upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 package won't configure on my 
> > system for some reason and it doesn't give any good reason what the 
> > matter is.
> > 
> > dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86 gives:
> > Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-6) ...
> > dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > xserver-xfree86
> > 
> > and now startx gives:
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.
> > 
> > Any help about how to fix this would be much appreciated. Thanks. -Jeff 
> > <cid:part1.05070205.07040202@netscape.com>
> 
> I managed to get past this by doing as root:
> 
> 1) Manually create the symlink /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
> 2) Issue 'dpkg --configure -a'
> 
> It seems that the postinst script for the xserver-xfree86 package can't
> handle the circumstance where that symlink doesn't already exist.  I'm not
> *sure* that's the problam, but creating that symlink made it work.

 I do it. `dpkg --configure -a'. and got the following error.

localhost:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-6) ...
ln: `/etc/X11/X' and `/usr/bin/X11/XFree86' are the same file
dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xserver-xfree86


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 Chung, Ha-Nyung <alita@kldp.org>