Bug#206790: bug 206790
Thank you, this seemed to fix it, although I had to do it twice. Joshua McClintock Systems Engineer Singlestep Technologies Connect. Simplify. Manage. 2320 First Avenue Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98121 P: 206.448.9700 F: 206.448.2666 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.singlestep.com On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:08:31PM -0700, Joshua McClintock wrote: I ran into the same problem as the gentleman the first reported this bug. After I did your work around and tried to install xserver-xfree86, I get: Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) ... Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not exist. Thanks for any help you can provide. There are a couple of workarounds for this. They both boil down to getting the package postinst script to believe that you want it to manage the files for you. Method #1: Purge and reinstall the package. # dpkg -P xserver-xfree86 # apt-get -f install Method #2: Create the files in question, seed their checksums, and reconfigure the package. # touch /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # ln -sf /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X # readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He [EMAIL PROTECTED] | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#206790: bug 206790
Thank you, this seemed to fix it, although I had to do it twice. Joshua McClintock Systems Engineer Singlestep Technologies Connect. Simplify. Manage. 2320 First Avenue Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98121 P: 206.448.9700 F: 206.448.2666 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.singlestep.com On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:08:31PM -0700, Joshua McClintock wrote: I ran into the same problem as the gentleman the first reported this bug. After I did your work around and tried to install xserver-xfree86, I get: Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) ... Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not exist. Thanks for any help you can provide. There are a couple of workarounds for this. They both boil down to getting the package postinst script to believe that you want it to manage the files for you. Method #1: Purge and reinstall the package. # dpkg -P xserver-xfree86 # apt-get -f install Method #2: Create the files in question, seed their checksums, and reconfigure the package. # touch /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # ln -sf /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X # readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He [EMAIL PROTECTED] | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
Bug#206790: bug 206790
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:08:31PM -0700, Joshua McClintock wrote: I ran into the same problem as the gentleman the first reported this bug. After I did your work around and tried to install xserver-xfree86, I get: Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) ... Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not exist. Thanks for any help you can provide. There are a couple of workarounds for this. They both boil down to getting the package postinst script to believe that you want it to manage the files for you. Method #1: Purge and reinstall the package. # dpkg -P xserver-xfree86 # apt-get -f install Method #2: Create the files in question, seed their checksums, and reconfigure the package. # touch /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # ln -sf /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X # readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He [EMAIL PROTECTED] | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#206790: bug 206790
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:08:31PM -0700, Joshua McClintock wrote: I ran into the same problem as the gentleman the first reported this bug. After I did your work around and tried to install xserver-xfree86, I get: Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) ... Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not exist. Thanks for any help you can provide. There are a couple of workarounds for this. They both boil down to getting the package postinst script to believe that you want it to manage the files for you. Method #1: Purge and reinstall the package. # dpkg -P xserver-xfree86 # apt-get -f install Method #2: Create the files in question, seed their checksums, and reconfigure the package. # touch /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # ln -sf /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X # readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He [EMAIL PROTECTED] | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore pgp8uMASAtYQb.pgp Description: PGP signature
