Re: X applications won't run after xorg upgrade [Update]
Florian Kulzer(florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl) is reported to have said:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 13:01:49 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer(florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl) is reported to have said:
> > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 17:56:50 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > > > Wayne Topa(linuxone@intergate.com) is reported to have said:
> > >
> >
> > [ big snip of OP]
> >
> > > > This is interesting. I do not have the /etc/X11/xserver directory at all!
> > > >
> > > > Would appreciate it if someone with a working xorg could tell me which package
> > > > contains the '/etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy' file.
> > >
> > > The SecurityPolicy file on my system seems to have come from the old
> > > xserver-common package (6.9.0.dfsg.1-6). The new xserver-xorg package
> > > replaces xserver-common, but the SecurityPolicy was left in place during
> > > the upgrade; it is obviously treated as a configuration file. You can
> > > extract the file from the old package with "dpkg-deb -X". If you do not
> > > have the package in your apt archives anymore you can download it to
> > > some temporary directory with "aptitude download"; this can be done as a
> > > normal user and it does not change your installation.
> > >
> > > My permissions are as follows:
> > >
> > > $ ls -ld /etc/X11/xserver/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-04-05 13:28 /etc/X11/xserver/
> > >
> > > $ ls -l /etc/X11/xserver/
> > > total 4
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2925 2004-04-28 20:20 SecurityPolicy
> >
> > Thanks for this Florian, you have moved me one step further.
> > As a quick test I created /etc/X11/xserver/ and only touched
> > SecurityPolicy. the permissions match yours.
> >
> >
> > Now all users can log into X!!!! SecurityPolicy, is empty!
> >
> > I've seen some strange problems with upgrades to unstable but this
> > xorg7 upgrade in etch was the strangest yet.
> >
> > I still see some odd messages, such as
> > Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list!
> > Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/OTF, removing from list!
> > Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/CID/, removing from list!
> >
> > The TTF,OTF,CID paths are not in the xorg.conf list of fonts so _something_
> > else is is looking for those fonts and throwing that error.
> >
> > So, all in all, xorg is finally working, thanks to you Florian. You provided
> > all the missing links to get me going. Thank you!
> >
> > Oh, and I changed the permissions back to what they should be on /var/log,
> > and it continues to work.
>
> Good to know that creating an empty file is enough as a quick fix.
> However, it is probably better to do the following:
>
> $ mkdir ~/xservertmp
> $ cd ~/xservertmp
> $ aptitude download xserver-common
> $ dpkg-deb -X xserver-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb .
> $ su
> # mkdir /etc/X11/xserver
> # cp ./etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy /etc/X11/xserver/
> # chown root:root /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> # exit
> $ cd ~
> $ rm -rf ~/xservertmp
>
Slight modification
aptitude download xserver-common/testing
otherwise the stable version will be downloaded, not
xserver-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb
Thanks, downloading now.
Wayne
> The bug has been reported already:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=362246
>
> --
> Regards,
> Florian
>
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