On Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 13:34:30 +0100, Zaplinski, Olaf wrote: > Package: xorg > Version: 1:7.1.0-9 > Severity: critical > Justification: startup fails > > I just dist-upgraded from woody to etch. When I tried to start X, I got: > > failed to load module kbd > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg did not help at all. Manually installing the > needed drivers for my system (xserver-xorg-video-i810 and > xserver-xorg-input-kbd) and *then* running dpkg-reconfigure helped. > OK, I just reproduced this: on upgrade from sarge + xorg 6.9 backport (didn't try with plain sarge), based on Olaf's installed package list, aptitude pulls in xserver-xorg-input-acecad and fglrx-driver instead of xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-video-all :( This system also had a backported apt and aptitude, so that might play a role here.
But if I add "deb http://people.debian.org/~jcristau/xorg/ ./" to sources.list, the metapackages are pulled in (these packages are built with the change I made to the repo, which is to readd the metapackages alternatives to the depends). My understanding is that aptitude doesn't pull in recommends when upgrading a package (here xserver-xorg), which would explain why the upgrade from backports breaks. Also, it would seem that etch's (and backport.org's) aptitude only pulls in one package to satisfy a virtual dependency, while my earlier testing suggested that sarge's aptitude pulled in all drivers. Hope this helps, Julien
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