dpkg-reconfigure xserver unable to quit

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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John wrote:
| Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
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|> Will Backman wrote:
|> | Warty-PPC
|> | If I use dpkg-reconfigure to reconfigure the xserver, I don't see a way
|> | to cancel before it writes the changes.  Ctl+c didn't work either.
|>
|> The option to backup and stop is disabled because the way to configure
|> X is so complex that implementing this feature would mean a complete
|> rewrite of that code and iirc there was one step that stopped me
|> completely
|> in doing so due to breaking compatibility with older implementations,
|> making partial upgrades very very difficult to handle.
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| I am fresh from wanting  to cancel the wretched thing. It was all sorts
| of questions I could not reasonable be expected to answer.
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The questions won't change in anycase. It's the way which all the data are
handled internally that would.

You cannot configure a X server without it.

Fabio

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