Package: xserver-common Version: 4.2.1-10 Severity: grave Tags: sid patch Justification: renders package unusable
I was installing X on a new laptop and went from a testing version of woody DVD I had stright to sid (via ftp) so no Xfree86 packages had been installed before. The postinst script errored reporting that the file does not exist. A quick check showed that /var/lib/xfree86 does not exist. 246 XWRAPPER_CONFIG=/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config 247 CHECKSUM_DIR=/var/lib/xfree86 248 XWRAPPER_CONFIG_CHECKSUM="$CHECKSUM_DIR/$(basename "$XWRAPPER_CONFIG").md5sum" 249 XWRAPPER_CONFIG_ROSTER="$CHECKSUM_DIR/$(basename "$XWRAPPER_CONFIG").roster" . . . 260 # register this package as a (potential) handler of the X server wrapper config 261 # file 262 if ! fgrep -qsx "$THIS_PACKAGE" "$XWRAPPER_CONFIG_ROSTER" ]; then 263 echo "$THIS_PACKAGE" >> "$XWRAPPER_CONFIG_ROSTER" 264 fi PATCH ----- I suggest you add the line mkdir -p `dirname $XWRAPPER_CONFIG_ROSTER` between lines 262 & 263 Steve -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux guwush 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xserver-common depends on: ii debconf 1.3.11 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii xfree86-common 4.2.1-10 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr -- debconf information: xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error: xserver-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only xserver-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10
