On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 09:22:20PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> f) xserver offered my to "configure now". this failed, because not everything
> was installed, so it could not work.
Can you be more specific?
There is nothing in the xserver postinst that demands the presence of
xbase. I assume makedev and libc6 were installed and configured. Were
they? They're both essential, so I assume they must have been.
> h) xbase: some files were already there, but empty (Xserver). maybe this has
> todo with f). many people had problems with bo, when /etc/init.d/xdm
> did exist, but was empty, and they did not press "I" to replace it.
> now the same thing again ?
What version of xbase was this? Sounds like it must be 3.3.2-3 or earlier.
If /et/X11/Xserver was empty, how did your machine know to look for the
Mach64 server when starting X (below)?
> h) xserver installation. the user needs your help !
> i didn't know, what xserver i need, so i installed only vga16,
> so XF86Setup will tell me more. result : fatal.
> the first time it failed because mach64 server was not installed.
XF86Setup depends only on the VGA16 server. XFree86 3.3.2-4 always backs
up the /etc/X11/XF86ConfConfig file.
> this will confuse users !
> i suggest to do an appropiate "echo xserver-<server>|dpkg
> --set-selection" call, save the default config, and ask the user
> to run dpkg again and continue later.
This is a very poor solution. I think 3.3.2-4 solves this.
> ok, so i had to care about this myself, and started xf86setup later again,
> doing the whole configuration again... this time i got :
>
> missing close-brace
> ("if" then script line 1)
> while compiling
> "if {![getline]} { ..."
> (file "/ ... /phase5.tcl" line 26)
> invoked within "source /.../phase5.tcl"
This is harmless (as you can see, the XF86Config file is created anyway),
but fixed in 3.3.2-4.
> XF86Config was written, but Xserver was not modified.
Xserver is not modified by XF86Setup, it is modified by the xserver package
postinst.
> xdm-start-server was not listed in /etc/X11/config.
> calling xbase-configure did not help. this script should assist the user in
> such stuff, because the debian way to do these things is only known to some
> hackers.
In XFree86 3.3.2-4, you may invoke /usr/sbin/xbase-configure with the
"force" argument.
XFree86 3.3.2-4 ships with xdm configured to start a local server, if the
user configures XDM to run at all.
> ok, at least xbase-configure changed the xdm/Xserver file, after i added
> the "xdm-start-server" line.
> btw: this seems to be redundant information to me.
All this is changed in XFree86 3.3.2-4. The xdm-start-server option has
been placed in limbo, and nothing edits /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver anymore; it
must be edited by hand. Detailed instructions are now inside that file to
facilitate the process.
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