Bad Xorg symbolic link in Breezy

[Bob Nielsen]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:02:44PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:05:35AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:08:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > > X died on me and won't restart.  I see that /etc/X11/X is a symlink to 
> > > /usr/bin/X11/Xorg, which is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg.  However, 
> > > in the latest Breezy xserver-xorg (6.8.2-20), /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg is not 
> > > an executable, but is a symlink to itself!  Thus there is no server.
> > 
> > Um, in -20, /usr/bin/X11/Xorg is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg.
> 
> Um, yes, as I said in the first sentence above.  But (and I removed the 
> symlink and reinstalled, but nothing changed):
> 
> $ ls  -al /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 20 2005-05-25 21:41 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg -> 
> ../../X11R6/bin/Xorg
> 
> 
> > 
> > Unless, of course, you attempted to repair the damage by making
> > /usr/bin/X11 a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin somehow, in which case you get
> > to keep both pieces.
> 
> Nope.  I solved the problem by extracting Xorg from the archive and 
> copying it to /usr/X11R6/bin/.  I'm not sure what caused the original 
> problem or why reinstalling kept recreating the bad symlink.  I suspect 
> the -16 to -20 upgrade causes something to break.
> 
> But then, I didn't really expect Breezy to be stable anyway.
> 
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It looks like -21 is broken also.  It (probably an installation script) 
recreated the bad symlink from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg to itself.  When I 
tried the same tactic I used for -20 (above), that didn't work, since 
Xorg is only a 7460 byte file which won't execute!