Re: Need to purge xprint-common to get xorg 7 working
Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont@free.fr> 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.
[...]
Hello,
The current code (1:1.0.1-1) in the init-script looks like this:
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[ -d /usr/X11/bin ] && XPROJECTROOT=/usr/X11
[ -d /usr/X11R6/bin ] && XPROJECTROOT=/usr/X11R6
# X11R7 now follows FHS, doesn't use it's own separate directory
XPROJECTROOT=/usr
XPCUSTOMGLUE=DebianGlue # This is used for customizing this script
export XPROJECTROOT XPCUSTOMGLUE
if [ -z "${XPROJECTROOT}" ] ; then
fatal_error "Unknown XProjectRoot."
fi
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which does not break, older version including the one in etch and
sarge do not contain the XPROJECTROOT=/usr fallback.
I do not think XSF can really fix this bug, it can conflict with the
older versions, but this won't help against uninstalled, but not
pruned packages.
cu and- actually it is a bug that the init-script does *anything*
before checking whether the package is not uninstalled, the
actual checking happens at line 562. See #270054 -reas
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