Re: broken X after upgrade in etch
Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> Alexandru Cardaniuc <cardaniuc@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi All!
> >
> > It seems I have solved the problem.
> >
> > # dpkg --force-overwrite -i
> >/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_amd64.deb
> >
> > After that the upgrade proceeded fine and everything seems to work
> >now!
> >
> > # ls -l /usr/X11R6/ total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2006-06-03
> >14:10 bin -> ../bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-06-03 14:11 lib
> >
> > Is that fine now? Do I need to erase the lib directory?
>
> No. Use of force is never fine.
>
> Please file a bug with your initial log.
Bug 370215, severity important.
The maintainer said that it's a conflict of x11-common with the current
version of xbase-clients. And there is already a fix, so the problem
should go away with the next version of xorg.
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and order."
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