Re: X bombs, calls for /usr/bin/cpp at startup - Why? Was: Surefire Xorg driver/config?
On 9/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:35:20PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > > are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors?
> > sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory
> apt-cache rdepends cpp
> shows, among other things, xbase-clients as depending on cpp.
>
>
> so long as you used an apt frontend to install the X stuff you should
> already have everything you need. But apparently you don't.
> I don't see just the meta package - xorg, which you might want to
> install, to make sure you bring in all the dependencies.
I did not install xorg package earlier - I began by installing
xserver-xorg-video-vesa, then added font and xterm packages.
Installed the xorg meta-pkg now using apt-get - it caught several
extraneous dependencies.
The /usr/bin/cpp error message is gone. But other symptoms are
completely unchanged: black screen, totally blank, no cursor, etc.
Detail on the library cross-checks you suggested at bottom. It looks
to my untrained eye as if all the library packages needed by
xbase-clients are now installed.
Is it a problem with the dependency checks, in your opinion, that
"xorg" package is not listed as a dependency for xserver-xorg-core or
its dependencies (as far as I can see)?
Do you know the "standard" way to install X if one chooses not to
check the box for "Desktop Environment" during installlation? I
wasn't trying to cause problems, merely to install X (without having
to eliminate an unwanted desktop later on). :-)
gp
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Library cross-check detail:
>
> also look at:
>
> apt-cache depends xbase-clients | awk '/Depends/ { print $2 }' | xargs dpkg -l
superuser pan:/mnt/hda11/oldpan/home/gp $ apt-cache depends
xbase-clients |awk '/Depends/ {print $2}'|xargs dpkg -l
No packages found matching <libgl1>.
(But: lists libgl1-mesa-gl below - I think it provides libgl1)
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13et GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library - runtime
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5+etch1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii libfs6 1.0.0-4 X11 Font Services library
ii libgl1-mesa-gl 6.5.1-0.6 A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- G
ii libice6 1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1.0.1-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7 1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension library
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii libxi6 1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxkbfile1 1.0.3-2 X11 keyboard file manipulation library
ii libxmu6 1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1 1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility library
ii libxrandr2 1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client library
ii libxss1 1.1.0-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt6 1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtrap6 1.0.0-4 X11 event trapping extension library
ii libxtst6 1.0.1-5 X11 Testing -- Resource extension library
ii libxv1 1.0.2-1 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86dga1 1.0.1-2 X11 Direct Graphics Access extension library
ii libxxf86vm1 1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension library
ii x11-common 7.1.0-19 X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
ii zlib1g 1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
>
> and make sure its all 'ii' installed. note this is not a dependable
> one-liner as the depends listing is not properly parsed by this, but
> it helps anyway.
I eliminated "libgl1" from the list produced above by "apt-cache
depends xbase-clients" and checked against the list produced by
apt-show-versions.
It looks as if all those libraries are installed. It looks as if only
"libgl1" was a complex dependency of xbase-clients. I used the other
package names exactly as produced by the awk hack you suggested.
Detail shown below.
superuser pan:/mnt/hda11/sync/newpan $ apt-show-versions >apt-show-versions
superuser pan:/mnt/hda11/sync/newpan $ for l in `cat
xbase-clients_depends `;do if grep $l apt-show-versions; then echo "
OK $l"; else echo "NOK $l";fi ;done
libc6-i686/etch uptodate 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2
libc6/etch uptodate 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2
OK libc6
libfontconfig1/etch uptodate 2.4.2-1.2
OK libfontconfig1
libfreetype6/etch uptodate 2.2.1-5+etch1
OK libfreetype6
libfs6/etch uptodate 2:1.0.0-4
OK libfs6
libgl1-mesa-glx/etch uptodate 6.5.1-0.6
OK libgl1-mesa-glx
libice6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-2
OK libice6
libpng12-0/etch uptodate 1.2.15~beta5-1
OK libpng12-0
libsm6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-3
OK libsm6
libx11-6/etch uptodate 2:1.0.3-7
OK libx11-6
libxau6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-2
OK libxau6
libxaw7/etch uptodate 1:1.0.2-4
OK libxaw7
libxcursor1/etch uptodate 1.1.7-4
OK libxcursor1
libxext6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-2
OK libxext6
libxft2/etch uptodate 2.1.8.2-8
OK libxft2
libxi6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-4
OK libxi6
libxkbfile1/etch uptodate 1:1.0.3-2
OK libxkbfile1
libxmu6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.2-2
OK libxmu6
libxmuu1/etch uptodate 1:1.0.2-2
OK libxmuu1
libxrandr2/etch uptodate 2:1.1.0.2-5
OK libxrandr2
libxrender1/etch uptodate 1:0.9.1-3
OK libxrender1
libxss1/etch uptodate 1:1.1.0-1
OK libxss1
libxt6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.2-2
OK libxt6
libxtrap6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-4
OK libxtrap6
libxtst6/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-5
OK libxtst6
libxv1/etch uptodate 1:1.0.2-1
OK libxv1
libxxf86dga1/etch uptodate 2:1.0.1-2
OK libxxf86dga1
libxxf86vm1/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-2
OK libxxf86vm1
zlib1g/etch uptodate 1:1.2.3-13
OK zlib1g
x11-common/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19
OK x11-common
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