Thanks, Florian. Sorry for the delay in replying. Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 16:03:33 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: >> Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The >> problem >> seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. dpkg is >> unable >> to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so'. This does not seem to be >> mentioned >> in any bug reports. Here is some of the output: >> >> # aptitude install xserver-xorg-core > > [...] > >> Writing extended state information... Done >> Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) > > Are you working in a chroot environment?
No - I'm not using chroot. > >> (Reading database ... 115963 files and directories currently installed.) >> Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 (using >> .../xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.4.1~git20080517-1_i386.deb) ... >> Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-core ... >> dpkg: error processing >> /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.4.1~git20080517-1_i386.deb >> (--unpack): >> unable to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so': No such file or >> directory >> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > > Check the output of "df -h", maybe one of your partitions is full. > There seems to be plenty of room in the root partition: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda11 28G 9.1G 18G 35% / tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 164K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda7 46G 41G 3.1G 94% /home/chris/multimedia /dev/hdb7 100G 73G 22G 77% /mnt/bkpb2 > If you still have enough space on all relevant partitions then post the > output of > > ls -ld /usr/lib/xorg/modules /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so > lsattr -d /usr/lib/xorg/modules /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so > file /usr/lib/xorg/modules /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so does not exist! # ls -ld /usr/lib/xorg/modules /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so ls: cannot access /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so: No such file or directory drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2008-06-17 11:47 /usr/lib/xorg/modules # lsattr -d /usr/lib/xorg/modules /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so lsattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so # file /usr/lib/xorg/modules /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules: directory /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so' (No such file or directory) -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
