Bug#234877: xserver-common: Failure in configuration for i830
Package: xserver-common
Version: 4.3.0-2
Severity: normal
When upgrading the X-related packages on my testing system to the
new 4.3.0-2 series I observed the following line "at postinst time":
parse error reading X server string `intelfb'
I did not really found out to which package this might be related.
This line was followed immediately by
start_configlet: configlet in path /usr/share/configlets/xserver-common is bad
I can reproduce the last line whenever I try to
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
I get this error message. After this no /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
is created at all which renders the package unusable (at least for
those people who have no idea how to build it by hand).
If I use an older /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file I created with the
last packages from experimental I just get a black screen. This
might or might not be related to #226430. Because there is no
comment on this bug I guess it is not yet solved and I think the
severity of this bug has to be increased because I'm not able to
use X on that box in question at all (while there might be good
chances that it would work with some former experimental packages).
Kind regards and thanks for caring for the X packages
Andreas.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (499, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xserver-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.3.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0-2 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
-- debconf information:
xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
xserver-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
xserver-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10
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