Bug#448845: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:44:47AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Do you still have this problem with latest xserver-xorg? (1:7.3+6 is in unstable, 1:7.3+7 just got uploaded there too). Problem still exists with 1:7.3+6 : dexconf: error: cannot generate configuration file; xserver-xorg/config/device/driver not set. Aborting. Reconfigure the X server with dpkg-reconfigure to correct this problem. Also, the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg process fails to detect my monitor (A Samsung Syncmaster 710T). Or at least I presume that it fails to do so: after the attempt at autodetection I end up being asked to give the full monitor specs regardless. The Xserver detects the monitor just fine as far as I can see from the logs. Should I file a separate bug? Looks like not all of 1:7.3+7 has arrived yet. I'll try it when it becomes available. It may be relevant that this machine has been pretty much continually upgraded for the last six or seven years, mostly tracking unstable. It's not exactly a fresh install of Debian ;) Phil -- http://www.kantaka.co.uk/ .oOo. public key: http://www.kantaka.co.uk/gpg.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#448845: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:48:54AM +, Philip Armstrong wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:44:47AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Do you still have this problem with latest xserver-xorg? (1:7.3+6 is in unstable, 1:7.3+7 just got uploaded there too). Problem still exists with 1:7.3+6 : dexconf: error: cannot generate configuration file; xserver-xorg/config/device/driver not set. Aborting. Reconfigure the X server with dpkg-reconfigure to correct this problem. Also, the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg process fails to detect my monitor (A Samsung Syncmaster 710T). Or at least I presume that it fails to do so: after the attempt at autodetection I end up being asked to give the full monitor specs regardless. The Xserver detects the monitor just fine as far as I can see from the logs. Should I file a separate bug? Looks like not all of 1:7.3+7 has arrived yet. I'll try it when it becomes available. OK, just done an update dragged in 1:7.3+7. Problem still exists. Just to test things, I tried removing the debconf config.dat cache file, so as to get all the defaults from the new package, but it didn't make any difference. Oh wait: I've found the problem! I didn't have discover installed (it was doing annoying things to my machine in the past) and this wasn't being picked up anywhere. Installing discover fixes the problem. Looks like the configuration needs to be aware of whether discover is installed or not, since it's currently a 'recommends' not a 'depends'. cheers, Phil -- http://www.kantaka.co.uk/ .oOo. public key: http://www.kantaka.co.uk/gpg.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#448845: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:14:14AM +, Philip Armstrong wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:48:54AM +, Philip Armstrong wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:44:47AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Do you still have this problem with latest xserver-xorg? (1:7.3+6 is in unstable, 1:7.3+7 just got uploaded there too). Problem still exists with 1:7.3+6 : dexconf: error: cannot generate configuration file; xserver-xorg/config/device/driver not set. Aborting. Reconfigure the X server with dpkg-reconfigure to correct this problem. Also, the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg process fails to detect my monitor (A Samsung Syncmaster 710T). Or at least I presume that it fails to do so: after the attempt at autodetection I end up being asked to give the full monitor specs regardless. The Xserver detects the monitor just fine as far as I can see from the logs. Should I file a separate bug? Looks like not all of 1:7.3+7 has arrived yet. I'll try it when it becomes available. OK, just done an update dragged in 1:7.3+7. Problem still exists. Just to test things, I tried removing the debconf config.dat cache file, so as to get all the defaults from the new package, but it didn't make any difference. Oh wait: I've found the problem! I didn't have discover installed (it was doing annoying things to my machine in the past) and this wasn't being picked up anywhere. Installing discover fixes the problem. Looks like the configuration needs to be aware of whether discover is installed or not, since it's currently a 'recommends' not a 'depends'. My main goal right now is getting rid of our reliance on discover in the postinst, so the fix for this bug will be to eventually remove all that code rather than a tighter dependency on discover. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#448845: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails
Do you still have this problem with latest xserver-xorg? (1:7.3+6 is in unstable, 1:7.3+7 just got uploaded there too). Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#448845: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails
Package: xserver-xorg Version: 1:7.3+3 Severity: normal Doing $ mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-backup $ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg failes (after answering a bunch of questions) with the following error: dexconf: error: cannot generate configuration file; xserver-xorg/config/device/driver not set. Aborting. Reconfigure the X server with dpkg-reconfigure to correct this problem. xserver-xorg postinst warning: error while preparing new Xorg X server configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.dpkg-new; not attempting to update existing configuration cheers, Phil -- Package-specific info: Contents of /var/lib/x11/X.roster: xserver-xorg /etc/X11/X target unchanged from checksum in /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-04-14 14:28 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1669976 2007-09-29 15:33 /usr/bin/Xorg Contents of /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.roster: xserver-xorg VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01) /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not exist. Xorg X server log files on system: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41134 2006-05-14 11:54 /var/log/Xorg.2.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44895 2007-09-12 22:37 /var/log/Xorg.1.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41266 2007-10-29 21:39 /var/log/Xorg.21.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72735 2007-10-31 23:04 /var/log/Xorg.20.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43768 2007-11-01 09:48 /var/log/Xorg.0.log Contents of most recent Xorg X server log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log: X.Org X Server 1.4.0 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4-3) Current Operating System: Linux kantaka 2.6.22-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 02:15:40 UTC 2007 x86_64 Build Date: 29 September 2007 04:19:41PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Thu Nov 1 08:18:38 2007 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout Default Layout (**) |--Screen Default Screen (0) (**) | |--Monitor SyncMaster (**) | |--Device ATI Technologies, Inc. RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard (**) |--Input Device Intellimouse (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (==) Including the default font path /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType. (**) FontPath set to: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi, /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType (==) RgbPath set to /etc/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/lib/xorg/modules (**) Extension Composite is enabled (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) Loader magic: 0x81d7b40 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3 X.Org Video Driver: 2.0 X.Org XInput driver : 2.0 X.Org Server Extension : 0.3 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libpcidata.so (II) Module pcidata: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 1.4.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0 (++) using VT number 7 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1039,0755 card 1849,0755 rev 01 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1039,0002 card , rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 1039,0964 card , rev 36 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:02:5: chip 1039,5513 card 1849,5513 rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 1039,7001 card 1849,7001 rev 0f class 0c,03,10 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:03:1: chip 1039,7001 card 1849,7001 rev 0f class 0c,03,10 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:03:2: chip 1039,7001 card 1849,7001 rev 0f class 0c,03,10 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:03:3:
