Bug#209181: xserver-common preinst error
Package: xserver-common
Version: 4.2.1-11
When I try to install the xserver-common package onto my system (~2
month-old packages from unstable, Linux kernel 2.4.17), I get the
following error:
klatch:/# apt-get install xserver-common
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 380 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/244kB of archives. After unpacking 119kB will be used.
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10
(Reading database ... 72306 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xserver-common 4.2.1-6 (using .../xserver-common_4.2.1-11_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-common_4.2.1-11_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-common_4.2.1-11_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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