Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link
On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and
> >installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message
> >appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to
> >/bin/true. No idea why this was done but the result was that X would no
> >longer start. I therefore remade the link to point to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg
> >and everything worked again.
> >
> >Question: why was the link remade in this way? Bug in some package, but
> >which?
>
> There seems to have been an issue with this while Xorg 7.0 was still in
> experimental, but according to the changelog it was fixed:
>
> ----------
> xorg (1:7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Force migration of symlink if it points to /bin/true. Thanks Sune
> Vuorela
> for the bug report and Ari Pollak for the fix.
> * Upload to unstable
> ----------
>
> Therefore it is probably appropriate to file a bug report against
> "x11-common" or "xserver-xorg". (The package maintainer will reassign it
> if necessary.)
>
> Regards,
> Florian
>
>
It's just happened on another machine as well, so I will report it.
Anthony
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