On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 07:01:12PM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hmm, this was supposed to have been fixed in xserver-xorg 1:7.0.11 by > > removing the symlink in question. :/ So there are two bugs here -- > > xserver-xorg needs to drop the symlink, and x11-common needs to bump its > > versioned conflict with xserver-xorg... > Just to add to the fun, today's upgrade of X also seemed to re-write the > /usr/X11R6/bin/X symlink. At least, I think that's how my laptop came to > contain this broken link: > joey@dragon:/usr/bin>ls -l X > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 15 18:47 X -> ../../bin/X I think there are two paths that can cause this -- either by meddling with the xserver-xorg contents, removing the /usr/X11R6/bin/X symlink by hand to work around this postinst failure, followed by upgrade to a version of xserver-xorg that re-adds /usr/X11R6/bin/X and overwriting /usr/bin/X; or by removing xserver-xorg, letting x11-common upgrade, and re-installing a version of xserver-xorg which x11-common failed to conflict with. Both of these should be transitive issues that won't affect future versions of the xorg packages; and users who experience this bug can fix it with a reinstall of x11-common. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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