Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:

> I do have a question though, what specifically are you referring to
> when you say the "fine manual" ?  Is this the installation guide at:

RELEASE NOTES, section 4 might be a good place to start.

> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install
>
> or the Progeny User Guide at:

Definitely not.

> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.html
>
> Or maybe some other source.  I have just not heard of the term "fine
> manual" before.  But, you obviously know more about this than I do.
>
> I did followed your advice and I am still getting the following error:
>
> sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing xserver-rage128 (--remove):
>   subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   xserver-rage128
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> I just cannot seem to be able to get the xserver-rage128 package out
> of my system.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for the help, sorry for the rant,

I found this as part of the installation bugs...

/etc/X11/Xserver is supposed to be a file, not a directory.
do a rm -rf /etc/X11/Xserver and then make /etc/X11/Xserver (a *file*)
have two lines:

so, is this a file or a dir?

I think there is a way to force an install/purge...
Assuming you don't need anything related to rage128 (version 3.3.6) you 
can be a little radical with it and try forcing the removal of this one 
package.

The safer approach would be find that package script and see exactly 
what it's failing on and why.

reportbug might be useful as well.