On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 17:56:50 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
[...] > > Sorry, I mentioned in a previous post that I had done all the > > suggestions at http://wiki.x.org. That included running > > dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. I have tried Console Users Only as well > > as anyone, with the same results, only root can start X. > > > Still trying to get Xorg running and did a reinstall of a bunch of > xorg packages. It seems that there is a problem with x11-common. > > Running 'aptitude reinstall x11-common' the file size shows a 279K > package but the package in the archive directory is 273K. This error > shows up when aptitude is unpacking the file > ------- > E: Sub-process gzip returned an error code (100) > E: Prior errors apply to > /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb > debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptor > ------------ $ ls -lh /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 273K 2006-05-21 23:19 /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb The difference in file length might be due to aptitude using SI-kilobytes (1000 bytes) while "ls -lh" still uses the old definition (1024 bytes, which is now supposedly called a "kibibyte"). Your .deb file could be damaged nevertheless, so it might be better to delete it and download it again. For comparison, here is my md5sum: $ md5sum -b /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb 6c2b7dd7514dbe4defd0c949817290b1 */var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb > BUT, users can get past the original error I reported and now show a new > error. > ------------ > error opening security policy file /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy > ------------ > > This is interesting. I do not have the /etc/X11/xserver directory at all! > > Would appreciate it if someone with a working xorg could tell me which package > contains the '/etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy' file. The SecurityPolicy file on my system seems to have come from the old xserver-common package (6.9.0.dfsg.1-6). The new xserver-xorg package replaces xserver-common, but the SecurityPolicy was left in place during the upgrade; it is obviously treated as a configuration file. You can extract the file from the old package with "dpkg-deb -X". If you do not have the package in your apt archives anymore you can download it to some temporary directory with "aptitude download"; this can be done as a normal user and it does not change your installation. My permissions are as follows: $ ls -ld /etc/X11/xserver/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-04-05 13:28 /etc/X11/xserver/ $ ls -l /etc/X11/xserver/ total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2925 2004-04-28 20:20 SecurityPolicy -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
