On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:08:05AM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote: > From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com> > > > > On 22-Nov-2001 Serge Rey wrote: > > > the one exception was i now run into the following after trying to > > > apt-get install <anything> > > > > > > dpkg: error processing xserver-svga (--configure): > > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > > xserver-svga > > > > > cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/ > > edit xserver-svga.postinst > > dpkg --pending --configure > > > Wouldn't it be better to do "dpkg --pending --configure" first, to see > what it's trying to do in the .postinst? Just because the > configuration is working doesn't mean it isn't broken in some way and > I'd like to get all my scripts run correctly before hacking them. > > otoh, it's woody, which means that some scripts, on some days, are > just broken anyway. as the install was running i did see an error message about xserver-svga failing to be configured, so i'm not putting this one down to a bad script. i fixed up x by hand after the upgrade (i.e., a missing symlink of X to the server was the problem). sean's fix did the trick, fwiw. thanks for the suggestions sean and derek. s. -- Serge Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html Constraints often boost creativity. -- Jim Hugunin, 11 Feb 1999
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