Branden, my roommate is having trouble with the 4.0.1-6 upgrade. He started out with a previous 4.0.1-x release, likely -3, -4 or -5. The error message returned is that the postinst failed. We have received two different error messages -- exit status 1 and exit status 5.
Running startx as a user gives this: var: allowed_users, value: rootonly. var: nice_value, value: . X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error. His dialog and debconf are up to date. (Making the /etc/X11/X symlink ourselves did not make matters better. :) We have tried dpkg-reconfigure debconf, selecting dialog and medium severity, do not ask questions multiple times. This would not allow us to progess any further with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-free86. Trying dpkg-reconfigure debconf, selecting dialog, low severity, ask questions multiple times, we get prompted with the ``hello new users, /etc/X11, hit <enter>'' screen when running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, but then the script dies, error status 1. At no time can we run dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86 because the xserver-xfree86 package is not completely installed. (Yes, we were a bit confused.) Changing the /etc/alternatives/perl to point to perl5.00503 (from perl5.6.0) did not improve the situation. It got much worse in a real hurry. Sadly, we cannot help diagnose the problem much, as we are going on thanksgiving break Real Soon Now. :-/ If you have any suggestions, that would be fine. My best guess is that deleting and reinstalling may be required, but .. bed time calls. :) Thanks Branden! :) -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.''