Thank you, this seemed to fix it, although I had to do it twice. Joshua McClintock Systems Engineer Singlestep Technologies Connect. Simplify. Manage.
2320 First Avenue Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98121 P: 206.448.9700 F: 206.448.2666 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.singlestep.com On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:08:31PM -0700, Joshua McClintock wrote: > > I ran into the same problem as the gentleman the first reported this bug. > > After I did your work around and tried to install xserver-xfree86, I get: > > > > Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) ... > > Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. > > Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not exist. > > > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > There are a couple of workarounds for this. They both boil down to > getting the package postinst script to believe that you want it to > manage the files for you. > > Method #1: Purge and reinstall the package. > > # dpkg -P xserver-xfree86 > # apt-get -f install > > Method #2: Create the files in question, seed their checksums, and > reconfigure the package. > > # touch /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum > > # ln -sf /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X > # readlink "/etc/X11/X" | md5sum > /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum > > # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be > Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | makes us suffer Christianity. > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore >
