On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:54:50PM -0500, Mike wrote: > Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > > Hi. Today's upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 package won't configure on my > > system for some reason and it doesn't give any good reason what the > > matter is. > > > > dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86 gives: > > Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-6) ... > > dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > xserver-xfree86 > > > > and now startx gives: > > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. > > var: nice_value, value: . > > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. > > > > Any help about how to fix this would be much appreciated. Thanks. -Jeff > > <cid:part1.05070205.07040202@netscape.com> > > I managed to get past this by doing as root: > > 1) Manually create the symlink /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 > 2) Issue 'dpkg --configure -a' > > It seems that the postinst script for the xserver-xfree86 package can't > handle the circumstance where that symlink doesn't already exist. I'm not > *sure* that's the problam, but creating that symlink made it work.
I do it. `dpkg --configure -a'. and got the following error. localhost:~# dpkg --configure -a Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.0.1-6) ... ln: `/etc/X11/X' and `/usr/bin/X11/XFree86' are the same file dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xfree86 -- Chung, Ha-Nyung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
