Subject: xserver-xorg uninstallable, X not working even on new system Package: xserver-xorg Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
*** Please type your report below this line *** xserver-xorg in not installable because preconfigure fails. This bug was apaprently fixed in 7.0.14, but has reappeared. A transcript fo the install is below. This particular report is on a new hard drive. <begin install report> Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed xserver-xorg 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/220kB of archives. After unpacking 721kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10 (Reading database ... 49002 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xserver-xorg (from .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. <end install report> -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- Bhaskar S. Manda