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Bug#408034: marked as done (3 upgrade problems to xorg 7)

Your message dated Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:50:36 +0100
with message-id <200701240350.37372.elendil@planet.nl>
and subject line Bug#408034: 3 upgrade problems to xorg 7
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Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.1.0-10
I upgraded my xwindows system from stable to testing and ran into three problems which took awhile to solve.
First, simply clicking on "+" in aptitude over package "xorg" produced broken packages. i had to manually look through the broken packages, select "+" for the upgradable ones, and go through the others one by one, find the conflicting package that was breaking them, and telling it to upgrade. After multiple iterations of this I ask aptitude to fix the rest and it finally could. i suppose this is a wishlist item for aptitude but i'm including it in this bug report in case another poor user finds it in a search.
Second, package installation failed. xbase-utils kept wanting to overwrite man pages belonging to other programs which were presumably packaged separately in previous releases (like "oclock"), and so xbase-utils failed to install (configure?). This preventing everything else from installing. The irony is that these other packages, like oclock, were due to be removed anyways, but for some reason aptitude wanted to install xbase-utils before it removed anything. I spent 10 or 20 minutes running aptitude, trying to install, manually removing the next blocking package.
It would be nice if dpkg would report all of such blocking packages at once, which would have let me uninstall all of them at once.
Also, the current version of xbase-utils should be marked as conflicting with older versions of oclock, etc.
After removing a bunch of these one by one, I got tired of it and ran dpkg --force-overwrite -i xbase-utils____. This completed the installation (but made me feel dirty).
However, X wouldn't run, giving me "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'". After half an hour on the internet, I found that the problem was explained here: 

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=362940;msg=10
For some reason, none of the packages that I had upgraded had offered to replace my xorg.conf with a clean version, making it hard for me to discover this problem.
I edited xorg.conf and updated the font paths and then it worked. Somewhere along the way I had also manually upgraded xfonts-base, btw, I don't know if that was necessary.
I suggest, as was suggested in that message, that some config script offers to modify xorg.conf (without replacing it) and provide the appropriate new FontPath entries.
Sorry if this bug report is a dupe, I searched BTS search for "xbase-utils upgrade overwrite" and found 0 hits. 

thanks,
 bayle

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On Wednesday 24 January 2007 02:53, Baylis Shanks wrote:
> that explains that. over a year ago when i got this machine i installed
> Ubuntu on it b/c it's a handheld and there weren't installation
> instructions available for Debian for this hardware. Then after the
> basic stuff was running I switched it over to Debian. I suppose some of
> the X-windows stuff was still Ubuntu, unbeknownst to me.

OK. In that case I propose we close this report. If you care to test 
upgrades from a clean Debian Sarge install and can see any problems then, 
feel free to file a new bug report.

> I had similar problems with a different machine (clean debian install)
> in terms of having to manually tell aptitude which packages to upgrade
> so that it wouldn't balk at installing xorg (the first problem i
> mentioned in the bug report). but i guess this "oclock" etc stuff (the
> second problem) must have been leftover from ubuntu. maybe the font
> stuff (the third problem) was from that too.

Yes, that is a known issue. There are 2 or 3 packages that you need to 
tell aptitude to upgrade for things to go smoothly. This will be covered 
in the release notes for Etch.

Cheers,
FJP

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