apt-get upgrade... xserver-xorg gone ... then system corruption
Hi everyone
This is - was - just a standard apt-get update/upgrade.
But it came up with a warning -
if xserver-xorg is no longer installed when this finishes,
install xorg to fix;
it wasn't so I did.
Then in a situation where apt-get -f install just crashed out (see
following), and changing anything in aptitude didn;t have any effect.
dpkg --configure -a produced "you have been hit by a truck" type
output. (see following)
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These first two are to ameliorate some other problems. The first only
helps some of the way. The second was in response to an instruction
to clear out /usr/X11R6/bin
...ok....
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[ ROOT ]/home/me > ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include
[ ROOT ]/home/me > mkdir /usr/X11R6/bin
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[ ROOT ]/home/me > apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libglu1-mesa libglu1-xorg libstdc++6 x-window-system x11-common
xbase-clients xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings
xfonts-scalable xfonts-utils
xorg xserver-xorg xutils xutils-dev
Suggested packages:
mesa-utils xfs xserver
Recommended packages:
discover1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xlibosmesa4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libglu1-mesa xbase-clients xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xorg
xserver-xorg xutils xutils-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libglu1-xorg libstdc++6 x-window-system x11-common xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable
8 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 1 to remove and 214 not upgraded.
47 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 17.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 2560kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main x11-common 1:7.0.20
[279kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xbase-clients 1:7.0.1-2
[1220kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xserver-xorg 1:7.0.20
[130kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main libstdc++6 4.1.0-4
[291kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main libglu1-xorg 1:7.0.20
[12.0kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main libglu1-mesa 6.4.1-0.4
[238kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xfonts-encodings
1:1.0.0-5 [585kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xfonts-utils 1:1.0.0-4
[64.3kB]
Get:9 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-3
[6129kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-2
[3906kB]
Get:11 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-2
[3470kB]
Get:12 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xfonts-scalable
1:1.0.0-4 [345kB]
Get:13 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xutils-dev 1:1.0.2-3
[297kB]
Get:14 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xutils 1:7.0.0-3
[63.6kB]
Get:15 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main xorg 1:7.0.20 [12.2kB]
Get:16 http://ftp.nz.debian.org testing/main x-window-system 1:7.0.20
[12.0kB]
Fetched 17.1MB in 2m52s (98.7kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values
to
xserver-xorg.
(Reading database ... 136193 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace x11-common 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 (using
.../x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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then, as I saw recently suggested dpkg --configure -a.
Note
(1) I am trying to install x11-common 1:7.0.20
(2) I specifically made /usr/include/X11 just above (there is a
report comming up that it (no longer) exists)
anyway ...
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[ ROOT ]/home/me > dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxdmcp6:
libxdmcp6 depends on x11-common (>= 1:7.0); however:
Version of x11-common on system is 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6.
dpkg: error processing libxdmcp6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-core:
xserver-xorg-core depends on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0); however:
Version of x11-common on system is 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6.
xserver-xorg-core depends on libxdmcp6; however:
Package libxdmcp6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
xserver-xorg-video-vmware:
xserver-xorg-video-vmware depends on xserver-xorg-core (>=
1:0.99.0-1); however:
Package xserver-xorg-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-video-vmware (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
:
:
:
many of these
:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus:
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus depends on xserver-xorg-core (>=
1:0.99.0-1); however:
Package xserver-xorg-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-video-cirrus (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up x11-common (6.9.0.dfsg.1-6) ...
x11-common postinst warning: /usr/include/X11 symbolic link does not
exist
Analyzing /usr/include/X11:
drwxr-xr-x 14 root staff 4096 Feb 17 18:44 /usr
dr-xr-xr-x 49 root root 8192 Jun 5 20:09 /usr/include
/usr/include/X11: nonexistent; directory contents of /usr/include/:
total 1988
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2672 Apr 15 03:48 _G_config.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3561 Mar 20 01:14 _pli_types.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4351 Apr 15 03:49 a.out.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10032 Mar 20 01:14 acc_user.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7135 Apr 15 03:49 aio.h
:
:
directory listing
:
:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2592 Apr 15 03:48 wordexp.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1684 Apr 15 03:48 xlocale.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9544 Mar 7 11:19 zconf.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66415 Mar 7 11:19 zlib.h
Searching for overlapping packages...
dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
xserver-xorg-video-newport:
xserver-xorg-video-newport depends on xserver-xorg-core (>=
1:0.99.0-1); however:
Package xserver-xorg-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg-video-newport (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
xserver-xorg-video-nsc:
xserver-xorg-video-nsc depends on xserver-xorg-core (>= 1:0.99.0-1);
however:
Package xserver-xorg-core is not configured yet.
:
:
:
more xserver-xorg-core dependency prob
:
:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of giftrans:
giftrans depends on x11-common | xfree86-common; however:
Package x11-common is not configured yet.
Package xfree86-common is not installed.
Package x11-common which provides xfree86-common is not configured
yet.
dpkg: error processing giftrans (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxi6:
libxi6 depends on libxext6; however:
Package libxext6 is not configured yet.
libxi6 depends on x11-common; however:
Package x11-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libxi6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libxdmcp6
xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-video-vmware
xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-video-glint
xserver-xorg-video-all
xserver-xorg-video-imstt
xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-video-vesa
xserver-xorg-video-rendition
xserver-xorg-video-dummy
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb
xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-ark
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
x11-common
xserver-xorg-video-newport
xserver-xorg-video-nsc
xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-i128
xserver-xorg-video-vga
xserver-xorg-video-s3
xserver-xorg-video-trident
xserver-xorg-video-tga
xserver-xorg-video-chips
xserver-xorg-video-i810
xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-video-nv
xserver-xorg-video-via
libfontenc1
xserver-xorg-video-i740
xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-tseng
libxau6
xserver-xorg-video-v4l
xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-apm
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge
libxext6-dbg
libxext6
libxfont1
giftrans
libxi6
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What type of approach should I take ?
It seems like any changes I make are not having any effect.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I can post any
other info too
thanks, cheers
Stephen
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