Re: Xorg broken in Lenny
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 17:16:36 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
> Xorg stopped working after a recent dist-upgrade of Lenny (Testing). The problem
> seems to be that the package xserver-xorg-core will not install. dpkg is unable
> to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so'.
[...]
> OK, time to check out in more detail what dpkg is doing when you try to
> install the package. You can use strace to see which files are being
> accessed:
>
> strace -f -e trace=file -o dpkg-file-strace.txt dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.4.1~git20080517-1_i386.deb
>
> The generated output, dpkg-file-strace.txt, will be too long to be
> posted on the list. The best option would be if you could put the file
> on a publicly accessible website or FTP server.
>
Sven Joachim wrote:
> Another possibility which produces less clutter is to use dpkg's -D
> option:
>
> dpkg -D100 -i
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.4.1~git20080517-1_i386.deb
2>dpkg.log
>
> Then grep for the offending file name in the generated log file.
I have created both files. Florian's:
http://untrammelled.co.uk/lenny/dpkg-file-strace.txt
Sven's
http://untrammelled.co.uk/lenny/dpkg.log
Regards,
--
Chris.
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