On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:57:03AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > I've got a system where I've recently installed potato and then > upgraded to testing. (Current as of a couple of days ago.) I never > had X working on potato, but I suspect the bits of it remaining may be > part of the problem. > > When I try to install xserver-xfree86 I get the error > "subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 128" > Not very helpful. > > I've probably made matters worse trying to debug the problem. Adding > a -v to /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.postinst gave a few more > messages, but the messages stop after starting the frontend.
Sounds like a bug; no idea if it's been fixed in unstable. You can probably get a good bit further using "export DEBCONF_DEBUG='.*'" before configuring xserver-xfree86 and posting the output here. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
