On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:04:05AM +1200, Donald Gordon wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:04:54 -0500 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:40:08PM +1200, Donald Gordon wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:13:05 -0500 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Can you please mail this bug the output of the following command?: > > > > > > > > # debconf-show xserver-common > > Oops. Sorry, I executed that on the wrong machine. Here's the result > from the one which was giving trouble: > > klatch:/# debconf-show xserver-common > xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error: > * xserver-common/manage_config_with_debconf: false > xterm/xterm_needs_devpts: Console Users Only > xserver-common/move_existing_nondebconf_config: false > xserver-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: > xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10 It's very odd that debconf-show is telling you that "xterm/xterm_needs_devpts" is owned by the xserver-common package, and that its value equals what xserver-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users should be. Your debconf database might be corrupted, I fear to say. > > In the meantime, you might try purging and reinstalling xserver-common. > > > Please let me know if that works (or doesn't). > > It does! Glad to hear it. Does debconf-show xserver-common still report the same thing? -- G. Branden Robinson | Build a fire for a man, and he'll Debian GNU/Linux | be warm for a day. Set a man on branden@debian.org | fire, and he'll be warm for the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett
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