Yay! That worked, and to boot an annoying graphical glich my graphics card had for ages is now solved with Xorg!
Thanks a lot for all the replies. Asa On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Asa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yesterday I ran the first apt-get upgrade on my unstable machine > > in a few months. > > > > Predictatbly there were lots of packages to upgrade. There > > were also many that were held back. So I ran apt-get install > > for many of these held back packages, not paying that much > > attention to what they were - only watching out for other > > packages that would end up being removed (this was rather > > stupid in retrospect). > > > > As I got to a set > > of X packages, the configuration asked me to choose between > > Xfree86 and x.org . This was new to me, so I thought - why > > not make the switch and selected x.org. > > > > During unpacking, x11-common gave the error: > > > > trying to overwrite '/etc/X11/Xsession.options' which is also > > in package xfree86-common > > > > apt then stoped. it also will not allow me to install anything else > > until x11-common is installed. On reset, X will not start. > > Furthermore startx seems to be missing. > > > > The version of x11-common that gives this error is > > 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all > > > > Can anyone shed any light on this or do I just have to wait > > for -5 ? Does anyone know when that's going to be released? > > To me it looks rather like you would need one of the older packages of > XOrg, since those managed to make the transition from XFree86 to XOrg > gracefully. I think you "missed" the natural time to make the switch and > now the newer XOrg packages are no longer doing everything which is > necessary to replace XFree86 smoothly. Nevertheless, I would expect that > you can simply force x11-common to overwrite the file and then continue > with the upgrade normally. This can be done by the command > > # dpkg --force-all -i > /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb > > followed by > > # apt-get install -f > > Regards, > Florian > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
