Bug#365879: xserver-xorg uninstallable, X not working even on new system
Subject: xserver-xorg uninstallable, X not working even on new system
Package: xserver-xorg
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
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xserver-xorg in not installable because preconfigure fails. This bug was
apaprently fixed in 7.0.14, but has reappeared. A transcript fo the
install is below. This particular report is on a new hard drive.
<begin install report>
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
xserver-xorg
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/220kB of archives.
After unpacking 721kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10
(Reading database ... 49002 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xserver-xorg (from .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall
again
Press enter to continue.
<end install report>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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Bhaskar S. Manda
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