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



On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:28:27PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > 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?

Hm.  The config script should have automatically trashed them.

# migrate to XFree86 4.2, where there are no pex or xie modules
db_get xserver-xfree86/config/modules
SELECTED_MODULES="$(echo $RET | awk 'BEGIN { RS=", "} {print $1}')"
# are the pex or xie modules selected?
if echo "$SELECTED_MODULES" | egrep -q "(pex|xie)"; then
  # get rid of them
  SELECTED_MODULES=$(echo "$SELECTED_MODULES" | egrep -v "(pex|xie)")
  SELECTED_MODULES=$(echo $SELECTED_MODULES | sed 's/ /, /g')
  db_set xserver-xfree86/config/modules "$SELECTED_MODULES"
fi

Or did you bring this on yourself by adding them by hand, and not letting
debconf handle 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.

This is starting to sound like a non-bug.

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