Le Mardi 25 Octobre 2005 02:43, Bill Marcum a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the > > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. > > > > After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, > > nor uninstall. (xserver-xorg to be precise) > > > > So after somme googling, I tried to edit > > /var/lib/dpkg/status > > /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates > > and remove the entries of xserver-xorg > > I also removed /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.* (preinst, postinst, > > prerm, postrm, and so on) > > > > but the system still won't install the package. It always failed during > > the preinst script it seems : > > You could try going back to an earlier version of xserver-xorg (you > might need to find it at snapshot.debian.net, or it might still be in > your cache); or, if the problem is the preinst script, you could try > running it with sh -x, or insert "exit 0" as the second line of the > script. >
First of all, thanks for the reply! In fact, I already tried something like this with the 1-7 version instead of current 1-9 and also tried to put the "exit 0" line and/or the "set -x" in preinst. But it didn't work : I mean it seems the package tried tu use it's own "packaged" scripts : the fact is when I removed the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.* , when running apt-get , aptitude or dpkg -i xserver-xorg, the preinst/postinst/postrm/and_so_on scripts are not reinstalled/copied in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ Any way thanks for the answer and excuse me for my approximate english... Philippe > > -- > Thou hast seen nothing yet. > -- Miguel de Cervantes
