Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the results of your proposals (see below). To be complete, I did include all output, but don't read the lines marked "not important" since they are secondary and of secondary interest as regards THE problem and should so far be ignored:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge xserver-xorg dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xorg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get --fix-broken --purge remove xserver-xorg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: # not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important Suggested packages: # not important linux-doc-2.6.15 linux-source-2.6.15 lilo # not important Recommended packages: # not important libc6-i686 # not important The following packages will be REMOVED xserver-xorg* The following packages will be upgraded: # not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 120 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/15,8MB of archives. After unpacking 31,5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!# not important linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 # not important Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout', <> line 1 during global destruction. /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev Preconfiguring packages ... /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN18QMetaObjectCleanUpD1Ev dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--purge): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid Aborted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-xorg Is there any hope? Tore måndag 6 mars 2006 11:14 skrev Olafur Jens Sigurdsson: > Try purging the package and then reinstalling it, removing does just > like you say, it doesnt delete the configuration files but purging > does, try dpkg --purge xserver-xorg > > Or you can allso try out apt-get -f ... the -f switch is --fix-broken > (it is usually used to fix broken dependencies but just perhaps it can > help you here).
