Austin Donnelly writes ("Bug#1976: xbase postinst creating XF86Config"): > Although it says you can ^C at any time while creating an XF86Config, > if you do so, lots of errors appear. It should say "expect lots of > errors" or something.
I just want to clarify this (since I was there too): If you do a new installation, and then hit ^C during the XF86Config creation which is run out of the xbase postinst, dpkg sees that the whole postinst has failed and then all the other X packages fail their configuration too. Ian.