[TriLUG] Tip: Breakage of X caused by aptitude updates

[Brian Henning]

Oh yes, of course!  Apologies.  I am running Etch, the latest "unstable" 
release.

Cristobal Palmer wrote:
> Just for clarity/posterity: remind us what OS you're running that gave
> you this problem? Debian Etch? Sid?
> 
> On 6/9/06, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
>> Maybe I'm the last one in line to encounter this problem and an apparent
>> working solution, but I thought I'd post this for posterity (and give
>> smarter, wiser folks the opportunity to say "YOU MORON!  What were you
>> thinking?!")
>>
>> So.  Latest wave of updates to x11, particularly xorg, come with a
>> warning saying something along the lines of "Some users have reported
>> this breaks X completely!"  Well, now I'm one of the affected.  I found
>> that issuing the following dpkg command will get the chink out of the
>> way that keeps all of the rest of X from updating / installing correctly:
>>
>> % dpkg --install --force-configure-any --force-overwrite
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common-_version-stuff-just-use-tab-complete_.deb 
>>
>>
>> Seemingly, without the force-configure-any, x11-common dies, complaining
>> that /usr/include/X11 is missing, and without --force-overwrite (in my
>> case at least) complains about overwriting a
>> /usr/X11/bin/somethingorother that's also part of Motif.
>>
>> With x11-common taken care of, all the other myriad x11 / xorg packages
>> click into place via pressing "g" in aptitude.
>>
>> Hope this helps somebody, or helps me if it happens again!  ha.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> ~Brian
>>
>>
>>
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