[Gllug] Can't configure X on Debian Sarge

[Ian Norton]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:23:16PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> I've got a Debian Sarge box which was originally installed without X.
> I'm now trying to add it in and I think I've got all the packages
> installed but it refuses to configure.
> 
> If I run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" it goes through all the
> usual questions about configuring X but then it simply doesn't write the
> configuration file.  /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is there but it's an empty
> file.  No error messages are produced.  What might be missing which
> would prevent the file being written?

See what happens if you delete the file and then do dpkg-reconfigure,

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Ian Norton-Badrul

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