On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 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. apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to 7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate a lot of mail... A > > Anthony > > -- > Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk > Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian > http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, > on-line books and sceptical articles) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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