Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > On: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:04:35 -0400 Mark H Mabry writes: > > > > I've been running slink for a few weeks. Last night I upgraded and > > xbase and xserver failed to install. What is worse is that somehow > > they deleted (at least) the "xdm" executable. Some of the message > > during the failure said that the file > > > > /var/dpkg/(i forgot dirname)/tmp.ci/preinst > > > > does not exist. When I went to look for preinst, I found that the > > dir "tmp.ci" didn't exist. Does anyone know what the problem is > > here? Any workarounds? > > Install the previous version of these packages. I remember having > read a warning regarding this in the last days, let's see if I find > them ... > > Yep, found: > > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > I just want to reiterate my warning to everyone that the new X packages are > not ready for prime time yet. Only those willing to help debug silly > packaging errors should use the new version (3.3.2.3a-3). Other should use > dpkg or dselect to put their X packages on hold. > > Those who do not auto-upgrade from the slink tree have nothing to worry > about. > > I'm working on 3.3.2.3a-4 now. Thanks to Joseph Carter for helping find > some bugs in -3. > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | The only way to get rid of a temptation > Debian GNU/Linux | is to yield to it. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Oscar Wilde > cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | > [2 <application/pgp-signature>] > > I set all X11 packages on hold (as well as Emacs and XEmacs[1]) and > tetex-bin which has some problems too. > > Torsten > > Footnotes: > [1] I don't want to update Emacsen every 2nd day. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
I, too, did an auto update, and had a problem with X. However, having played around with it so much lately I decided to take go at reconfiguring it by hand, and discovered the only thing blown out was /etc/Xserver. I simply reinserted the Xserver I use, XF86_SVGA and ran startx, and it popped right back up. I can't help with xdm, but maybe startx will get you going. My main problem now is when I run XF86Setup, I get a message saying not all of the X keyboard extensions programs & configuration files are installed. The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/README is missing. And sure enough it is.... But, my X is up and running, so I'll wait til it gets fixed to worry about it.... pat
