On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:04:54 -0500 Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:40:08PM +1200, Donald Gordon wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:13:05 -0500 Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Can you please mail this bug the output of the following command?: > > > > > > # debconf-show xserver-common Oops. Sorry, I executed that on the wrong machine. Here's the result from the one which was giving trouble: klatch:/# debconf-show xserver-common xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error: * xserver-common/manage_config_with_debconf: false xterm/xterm_needs_devpts: Console Users Only xserver-common/move_existing_nondebconf_config: false xserver-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: xserver-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -10 > I'm not sure what the problem is (and preinst scripts are notoriously > difficult to troubleshoot), but I'm adding some more defensive logic to > the xserver-common preinst script in 4.2.1-12, and hopefully that will > resolve the problem. Thanks. > In the meantime, you might try purging and reinstalling xserver-common. > Please let me know if that works (or doesn't). It does! donald
