Bug#457504: #457504: xserver-xorg: Autogeneration of xorg.conf failed (was: Bug#457504 closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>)

[Erik Schanze <schanzi_@gmx.de>]

reopen 457504
thanks

Hi,

Debian Bug Tracking System Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org>:
> Bug#457504 closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (Re:
>
> #457504: xserver-xorg: Autogeneration of xorg.conf failed
>
> It has been closed by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>.
>
> Thanks for your report, this is fixed in the dexconf script in
> x11-common/1:7.3+9.  Here is the relevant changelog entry:
>
Oh, I doubt that:
----------8<-------------------------------------8<---------------------
neo:~# dpkg -l x11-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version                 Description
+++-=======================-=======================-==============================================================
ii  x11-common              1:7.3+9                 X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
neo:~# mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old
neo:~# ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf
ls: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
neo:~# dexconf
dexconf: error: cannot generate configuration file;
xserver-xorg/config/device/driver not set.  Aborting.  Reconfigure the X server
with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to correct this problem.
neo:~# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
md5sum: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
dexconf: error: cannot generate configuration file;
xserver-xorg/config/device/driver not set.  Aborting.  Reconfigure the X server
with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to correct this problem.
xserver-xorg postinst warning: error while preparing new Xorg X server
   configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.dpkg-new; not attempting to
   update existing configuration
neo:~# ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf
ls: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
neo:~#
----------8<-------------------------------------8<---------------------

Please fix this issue.

Regards,

Erik


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