on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:43:48AM -0400, michael.bartl1@chello.at (michael.bartl1@chello.at) wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:15:09 +0200 "William Leese" wrote:
> > I believe that in the package xbase-clients there is the script
> > xf86config, which can generate a XF86Config-4 configuration file.
> sorry, i think you misinterpreted my question:
>
> when downloading a package with dselect (apt) it tries to configure it
> automagically afterwards ([C]onfigure point in dselect)! There it hangs
> at the package xserver-xfree86 forever...
>
> can someone please explain why? should i just ignore it?
Please post reply benath quoted material, and trim quotes.
This may be a bug in the package.
Kill the configuration process, if you can't <ctrl>-C it, try to find
what process it is from another shell (ps, pstree, and related tools are
your friends).
First try:
$ apt-get install --fix-missing
or:
$ dpkg --configure -a
...which may get the configuration worked out for you.
If not, try to configure X per instructions previously posted here.
If you're still stuck, you can look in /var/lib/info/<package>* to find
list, postinst, prerm, and postrm scripts, and try to work out what's
going on from there.
I'd suggest you can try running the preinst and postinst scripts
manually, but I'm not convinced that this works (apt sets environment?).
Comments, anyone?
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