Re: [bruce@perens.com: user not authorized to run the X server]
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:21:17PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> * Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com> [001212 18:18]:
> > > That's dpkg-reconfigure, actually...
> >
> > "dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common" doesn't seem to do anything for me. It
> > runs, exits, and Xwrapper.config is exactly the same as it was before.
>
> This would probably mean you set your debconf severity level to such a
> state that it doesn't bother asking you the question. Reconfigure
> debconf, and see if that changes matters. :) (And if you think Branden
> screwed up the priority of the question, be sure to let the list know.
> :)
>
I found the problem. It's not done in xfree86-common, it's done by
xserver-common! It's asking me the right questions now :)
Incidentally, the /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config is not found by dpkg -S, which is
technically fine, since, as I understand it, the file isn't "in" the
package, it's only generated dynamically by it. But it might have been
helpful for it to be listed, so that I could have verified earlier which
package it is in. Are there reasonable grounds for the file to be explicitly
placed in the X source, so it's registered as belonging?
Or, more ambitiously, should debconf (or whatever is generating the file) be
able to add the new file to the database of registered files when desired?
Drew
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