Bad Xorg symbolic link in Breezy

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Thu May 26 05:02:44 UTC 2005


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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