Re: Broken xserver-xorg in Sid
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On 04/17/07 07:16, cass iano wrote:
> Michael Pobega wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:38:21PM -0300, cass iano wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am running Debian Sid for a while now, and have never had any
>>> troubles. Turns out that I have just upgraded the whole of it, and
>>> xserver-xorg 7.1.0-18 fails to set up.
>>>
>>> I had 7.1.0-17 working flawlessly until now, but I'm afraid that I am
>>> going to be X-less for a while now, since I cannot install -17 or -16
>>> for that matter.
>>>
>>> What happens is that aptitude, apt-get or dpkg just hang on 'Setting
>>> up xserver-xorg (7.1.0-18) ...' and will just go on if I hit
>>> Control-C, which obviously just aborts the set up and leaves a broken
>>> package.
>>>
>>> How can I try to trace the error, file a bug report (if it's the
>>> case), etc?
>>>
>>> I would really appreciate any help on this matter, beginning with how
>>> to find out what has hung the setup and how to fix it.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Cassiano Leal
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg?
>>
>> If that fails remove it from /var/cache/apt/archives
>> (xserver-xorg-7.1.0-18.deb would be my guess) and try installing it with
>> APT.
>>
>>
>
> Yeah, I have even tried to manually download it from packages.debian.org
> and installing it with dpkg -i, but still to no avail.
>
> I have found out through htop's tree listing (what a wonderful tool htop
> is!) that the process that was hanging was a 'discover
> --disableblahblahblah' command inside xserver-xorg.postinst (on
> /var/lib/dpkg/info, IIRC). So, I went into the .postinst and tried to
> find the line that was executing the command.
>
> Turns out that it was only trying (as far as I could understand) to
> check whether discover was version 1.x, by throwing the output of the
> command into a variable. So, what I did was to substitute the line
>
> VARIABLE=$(discover --disableblahblahblah | greps and awks and stuff)
>
> for
>
> VARIABLE='Discover 1.1'
>
> and tried to reinstall the package. Voilà! That was it.
>
> It still bugs me, though, to think that at xserver-xorg's next upgrade
> it might break again.
Bugs in Sid? I'm shocked!!! Shocked, I tell you, shocked!!!!
> One note: before I did this, I tried to run discover with no parameters,
> and it also hung. So, I downgraded discover to the previous version and
> tried to run it again, and it worked. xserver-xorg's setup did not,
> though, and I still had to do the script editing workaround.
>
> Well, if anybody goes into this trouble, maybe this info will help.
As would filing a bug against xserver-xorg.
> Thanks for the help, though!
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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