Bug#163936: xserver-xfree86: should be loading xext modules!

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:44:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > >From my XFree86.0.log:
> > 
> > (II) LoadModule: "pex5"
> > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so
> > dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so: undefined symbol: PexExtensionInitPtr
> > (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so
> > (II) UnloadModule: "pex5"
> > (EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (loader failed, 136286616)
> > 
> > And I discovered that I still have the old xext package installed.  I
> > don't know why 4.2.1 is loading the old versions.
> 
> I'm not positive this is a bug:
> 
> 1) Do you have "pex5" listed in the "Modules" Section of your
> XF86Config-4?

Yes, and xie (not that I know what they do ;-)  Should I just delete
them?

> 2) Does the above cause the server to crash?

No.

> It wouldn't make sense for me to have xserver-xfree86 conflict with the
> xext package, because some people might still want that package
> installed, to use with the still-available XFree86 3.x servers.

Agreed.

I think what happened is that they were in 4.1.0, and all worked fine,
but they have been removed from 4.2.0, so suddenly xserver-xfree86 is
attempting to use the old 3.3.6 versions.

   Julian

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