Re: Problem when upgrading to X.org
Yay!
That worked, and to boot an annoying graphical glich my graphics card
had for ages is now solved with Xorg!
Thanks a lot for all the replies.
Asa
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Asa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yesterday I ran the first apt-get upgrade on my unstable machine
> > in a few months.
> >
> > Predictatbly there were lots of packages to upgrade. There
> > were also many that were held back. So I ran apt-get install
> > for many of these held back packages, not paying that much
> > attention to what they were - only watching out for other
> > packages that would end up being removed (this was rather
> > stupid in retrospect).
> >
> > As I got to a set
> > of X packages, the configuration asked me to choose between
> > Xfree86 and x.org . This was new to me, so I thought - why
> > not make the switch and selected x.org.
> >
> > During unpacking, x11-common gave the error:
> >
> > trying to overwrite '/etc/X11/Xsession.options' which is also
> > in package xfree86-common
> >
> > apt then stoped. it also will not allow me to install anything else
> > until x11-common is installed. On reset, X will not start.
> > Furthermore startx seems to be missing.
> >
> > The version of x11-common that gives this error is
> > 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all
> >
> > Can anyone shed any light on this or do I just have to wait
> > for -5 ? Does anyone know when that's going to be released?
>
> To me it looks rather like you would need one of the older packages of
> XOrg, since those managed to make the transition from XFree86 to XOrg
> gracefully. I think you "missed" the natural time to make the switch and
> now the newer XOrg packages are no longer doing everything which is
> necessary to replace XFree86 smoothly. Nevertheless, I would expect that
> you can simply force x11-common to overwrite the file and then continue
> with the upgrade normally. This can be done by the command
>
> # dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb
>
> followed by
>
> # apt-get install -f
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
>
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