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xorg package

  1. Bug #1244778
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1244778

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Teo (teo1978) wrote : Re: system won't boot: "couldn't write bytes: broken pipe"

Ok, the 52-something.conf file I had erroneously placed into /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ had _not_ disappeared and was what triggered the issue.

The real issue then is that Xorg is way too fragile and fails to do one or more of three very basic things if it encounters errors in some configuration file:
- print a sensible error message informing of which configuration file contains errors
- try to skip that file (after prompting the user whether to do so)
- fallback to some workable defaults if everything else fails