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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 > 
[ ROOT ]/home/me > 
[ 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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