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Re: Need to purge xprint-common to get xorg 7 working



Dominique Dumont wrote:
> I've upgraded from Xork 6.9 to Xorg 7.0. While updating, aptitude
> insisted on removing xprint. Then xprint-common was removed by
> aptitude as it was no longer used.
> 
> Unfortunately, I couldn't get Xorg to start with startx. Long story
> short, I found this error message in .xession-error:
> 
>   Xsession: X session started for root at Sun Apr 23 17:02:56 CEST 2006
>   /etc/init.d/xprint: ## FATAL ERROR: Unknown XProjectRoot.
> 
> The solution was to purge xprint-common (instead of just removing the
> package as suggested by aptitude).
> 
> I don't know if this behavior is normal with unstable or not. If you
> want, I can log a bug agaisnt xserver-xorg.

The bug is that /etc/init.d/xprint continues to try to do something even
though its package is removed and apparently breaks X startup. You
should file a bug to that effect.

-- 
see shy jo

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