problems with xorg from Sid :(

divukman · 05-03-2006, 04:32 PM

Aloha all, long time no see

but fun never ends with debian, especially when Sid is involved, he likes to break my toys and give me headaches

Ok so here's the problem, I wanted the fglrx and saw that it required new xorg, no problemo I said, I've user Sid's xorg before and it worked fine... the thing is now it wanted to update a lot of other things with it, ok I said....

However, things got bad and ugly around here, luckily x starts and I'm writing this, but take a look at the output below!?!

I thought I'd downgrade something, but it wants to delete 585+ packages for that, and some of those I'm just not yet willing to delete and hope I'll get things fixed.

What do you suggest? I'm out of ideas, perhaps wait till xorg 7.0.+ moves to testing ?
Huh,

thanks,

Code:

# aptitude install -t unstable xorg
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree       
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  xfonts-scalable 
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xfonts-scalable xorg xserver-xorg 
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 726 not upgraded.
Need to get 355kB/575kB of archives. After unpacking 1376kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.hr.debian.org sid/main xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-4 [345kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.hr.debian.org sid/main xorg 1:7.0.15 [10.4kB]                                                                        
Fetched 355kB in 28s (12.4kB/s)                                                                                                       
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to
   xserver-xorg.
xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10
(Reading database ... 126938 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xserver-xorg (from .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb) ...
xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to
   xserver-xorg.
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
Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-scalable.
Unpacking xfonts-scalable (from .../xfonts-scalable_1%3a1.0.0-4_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package xorg.
Unpacking xorg (from .../xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb) ...
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)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xorg:
 xorg depends on xserver-xorg; however:
  Package xserver-xorg is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xorg (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xfree86:
 xserver-xfree86 depends on xserver-xorg; however:
  Package xserver-xorg is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up xfonts-scalable (1.0.0-4) ...
Updating font configuration of fontconfig...
Cleaning up category cid..
Cleaning up category truetype..
Cleaning up category type1..
Updating category type1..
Updating category truetype..
Updating category cid..

Errors were encountered while processing:
 xorg
 xserver-xfree86
Reading Package Lists... Done             
Building Dependency Tree       
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

kushalkoolwal · 05-03-2006, 04:45 PM

Try this

Code:

apt-get -t testing install xserver-xorg xserver-common xfonts-base

divukman · 05-03-2006, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kushalkoolwal

Try this

Code:

apt-get -t testing install xserver-xorg xserver-common xfonts-base

Code:

# apt-get -t testing install xserver-xorg xserver-common xfonts-base
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
xfonts-base is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  x11-common: Conflicts: xserver-common but 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 is to be installed
              Conflicts: xserver-xorg (< 1:7.0.12)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Open to more suggestions

kushalkoolwal · 05-03-2006, 05:14 PM

apt-get -f install

and then

apt-get -t testing install xserver-xorg xserver-common xfonts-base

should solve your problem.

Good Luck

divukman · 05-03-2006, 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kushalkoolwal

apt-get -f install

and then

apt-get -t testing install xserver-xorg xserver-common xfonts-base

should solve your problem.

Good Luck

Noap, not working...
However I see that there was a similar problem with xorg on ubuntu... When I try unstable I still get

Code:

# apt-get -t unstable install xserver-xorg             
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  libglide2
Recommended packages:
  xlibs discover
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xserver-xorg
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 726 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/220kB of archives.
After unpacking 721kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to
   xserver-xorg.
xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10
(Reading database ... 126957 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xserver-xorg (from .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb) ...
xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to
   xserver-xorg.
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)

Is it a but in debian ?
What about this ???
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux....72/focus=32672

kushalkoolwal · 05-03-2006, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by divukman

Noap, not working...
However I see that there was a similar problem with xorg on ubuntu... When I try unstable I still get

Code:

# apt-get -t unstable install xserver-xorg             
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  libglide2
Recommended packages:
  xlibs discover
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xserver-xorg
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 726 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/220kB of archives.
After unpacking 721kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to
   xserver-xorg.
xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 10
(Reading database ... 126957 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xserver-xorg (from .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.0.15_all.deb) ...
xserver-xorg config warning: Migrating xserver-xfree86 debconf values to
   xserver-xorg.
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)

Is it a but in debian ?

I forgot to mentioned one thing. Did you do apt-get update before running those commands? If yes then can you post your /etc/apt/sources.lst and /etc/apt/preferences(if any)?

divukman · 05-03-2006, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kushalkoolwal

I forgot to mentioned one thing. Did you do apt-get update before running those commands? If yes then can you post your /etc/apt/sources.lst and /etc/apt/preferences(if any)?

Sure I did, I believe it's a bug and should be fixed in 7.0.16, but here they are anyways

Code:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

# Sarge (stable 3.1)
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main
#hr 
deb http://ftp.hr.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

# Etch (testing)
#deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
#hr 
deb http://ftp.hr.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

# Sid (unstable)
#deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
# (sid has no security updates)
#hr 
deb http://ftp.hr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free


# bootsplash
deb http://www.bootsplash.de/files/debian unstable main

# Debian Unofficial
deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian stable main contrib non-free restricted
deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free restricted
deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sid main contrib non-free restricted

# Blackdown Java
deb ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/java-linux/debian stable non-free

and

Code:

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences 
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 500

divukman · 05-03-2006, 05:42 PM

I see new updates within last half an hour, perhaps they got new xorg...

LOL, this is going to be some story to tell, will go quite well with a bottle of rum

So, my repositories just got xorg 7.0.16!!!!!!!! within last 15 minutes or so!!!!!
aptitude -t unstable install xserver-xorg went fine, it was a bug after all....

kushalkoolwal thanks for all the effort

rickh · 05-03-2006, 05:56 PM

Looking at your sources.list file, you are getting files from all three releases, Sarge, Etch, and Sid. That doesn't make sense to me. Seems to me that would cause numerous things to break. Maybe I'm misinformed, tho.

divukman · 05-03-2006, 06:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickh

Looking at your sources.list file, you are getting files from all three releases, Sarge, Etch, and Sid. That doesn't make sense to me.

Actually it does make sense, but only with apt pinning. All problems fixed

kushalkoolwal · 05-03-2006, 07:19 PM

Yes, with apt-pinning that should not be problem. It will just pick the package which has greatest priority in /etc/apt/preferences. I have almost the exact same preferences as divukman and it is just working fine for me.