-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/17/07 07:16, cass iano wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:38:21PM -0300, cass iano wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I am running Debian Sid for a while now, and have never had any >>> troubles. Turns out that I have just upgraded the whole of it, and >>> xserver-xorg 7.1.0-18 fails to set up. >>> >>> I had 7.1.0-17 working flawlessly until now, but I'm afraid that I am >>> going to be X-less for a while now, since I cannot install -17 or -16 >>> for that matter. >>> >>> What happens is that aptitude, apt-get or dpkg just hang on 'Setting >>> up xserver-xorg (7.1.0-18) ...' and will just go on if I hit >>> Control-C, which obviously just aborts the set up and leaves a broken >>> package. >>> >>> How can I try to trace the error, file a bug report (if it's the >>> case), etc? >>> >>> I would really appreciate any help on this matter, beginning with how >>> to find out what has hung the setup and how to fix it. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Cassiano Leal >>> >> >> Have you tried dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg? >> >> If that fails remove it from /var/cache/apt/archives >> (xserver-xorg-7.1.0-18.deb would be my guess) and try installing it with >> APT. >> >> > > Yeah, I have even tried to manually download it from packages.debian.org > and installing it with dpkg -i, but still to no avail. > > I have found out through htop's tree listing (what a wonderful tool htop > is!) that the process that was hanging was a 'discover > --disableblahblahblah' command inside xserver-xorg.postinst (on > /var/lib/dpkg/info, IIRC). So, I went into the .postinst and tried to > find the line that was executing the command. > > Turns out that it was only trying (as far as I could understand) to > check whether discover was version 1.x, by throwing the output of the > command into a variable. So, what I did was to substitute the line > > VARIABLE=$(discover --disableblahblahblah | greps and awks and stuff) > > for > > VARIABLE='Discover 1.1' > > and tried to reinstall the package. Voilà! That was it. > > It still bugs me, though, to think that at xserver-xorg's next upgrade > it might break again.
Bugs in Sid? I'm shocked!!! Shocked, I tell you, shocked!!!! > One note: before I did this, I tried to run discover with no parameters, > and it also hung. So, I downgraded discover to the previous version and > tried to run it again, and it worked. xserver-xorg's setup did not, > though, and I still had to do the script editing workaround. > > Well, if anybody goes into this trouble, maybe this info will help. As would filing a bug against xserver-xorg. > Thanks for the help, though! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGJMKZS9HxQb37XmcRAhcIAKCjY7YEYQoWk7O0YTpxEdW115kK1ACeIIp2 +ChXv6cH3rHTaAAYk+e7j78= =37R5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
