On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and > >installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message > >appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to > >/bin/true. No idea why this was done but the result was that X would no > >longer start. I therefore remade the link to point to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg > >and everything worked again. > > > >Question: why was the link remade in this way? Bug in some package, but > >which? > > There seems to have been an issue with this while Xorg 7.0 was still in > experimental, but according to the changelog it was fixed: > > ---------- > xorg (1:7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low > > * Force migration of symlink if it points to /bin/true. Thanks Sune > Vuorela > for the bug report and Ari Pollak for the fix. > * Upload to unstable > ---------- > > Therefore it is probably appropriate to file a bug report against > "x11-common" or "xserver-xorg". (The package maintainer will reassign it > if necessary.) > > Regards, > Florian > > It's just happened on another machine as well, so I will report it.
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