xserver-xorg-core Broken - need quick help - cows are hungry

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 12:28 +0200, kristian.mailinglists at ewetel.net
wrote:
> I broke my Etch-i386-Installation yesterday (on an Acer-Aspire-1700 Laptop):
> 
> After an normal aptitude-update (updating of xorg components and some other
> stuff), X refuses to work. The problem is that I used VMware with WindowsXP and
> a cow-management software for my farm. So I can not use this essential software
> anymore. Quick help is needed!
> 
> I localized the problem:
> 
> dpkg is not able to install the new version of the xserver-xorg-core package
> (1.0.2-9 to 1.1.1-10), because of problems with the directory and file structure
> and the file libglx.so. The error looks like this:
> 
> (Reading database ... 184077 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xserver-xorg-core (from .../xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.1.1-10_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.1.1-10_i386.deb (--install):
> unable to create `./usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so': No such file or
> directory

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381857 .


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