Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-3
Installation fails, with an apparently endless series of lines complaining about input overruns, when I try to upgrade from version 4.1.0. Following is an example, recorded after I downloaded the .deb packages, from a console without X running. Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 libc6-dev libc6-pic libdb1-compat locales The following NEW packages will be installed: libdb1-compat 5 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 394 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/14.0MB of archives. After unpacking 1012kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Preconfiguring packages ... ttyS: 1 input overrun(s) ttyS: 257 input overrun(s) ttyS: 257 input overrun(s) ttyS: 257 input overrun(s) ttyS: 257 input overrun(s) ttyS: 257 input overrun(s) etc., continuing until I press ctrl-c. I tried this several times; sometimes the numbers differ, on two occasions the keyboard froze. To test whether one of the the extra packages is responsible, I installed them separately, using dpkg. Then I ran dpkg on the xserver-xfree86 package, and the above overrun(s) lines again appeared. Kernel version is 2.4.20-pre7-ac3, libc-2.2.5.so is on the system. Motherboard is an intel 845 with P4 1700 MHZ cpu. /home directory is set up with software raid 1. The kernel is the result of two patches applied to version 2.4.19, in order to support a Promise ultra 133 TX2 controller. Two hard drives: seagate 80 GB 7200 rpm and quantum 15 GB 5400 rpm. Bob Parnes -- Bob Parnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
