Comment 17 for bug 220143

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Here is the log from term.log around the point of failure:

Setting up xserver-xorg-video-all (1:7.3+10ubuntu10) ...
Setting up xorg-driver-fglrx (1:7.1.0-8-3+2.6.24.12-16.34) ...
 * Starting atieventsd
   ...done.
Setting up xserver-xorg (1:7.3+10ubuntu10) ...
No protocol specified
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 60.
dpkg: error processing xserver-xorg (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xorg:
 xorg depends on xserver-xorg; however:
  Package xserver-xorg is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xorg (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
 ubuntu-desktop depends on xorg; however:
  Package xorg is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up language-pack-en (1:8.04+20080415) ...

Slangasek might be right that X isn't crashed, but from the several errors about it not being accessible at :0.0, it's at least not running in a fashion that other things expect. It would be handy to have the Xorg.0.log and maybe /etc/X11/xorg.conf to check how X is configured.

I notice in the above that atieventsd is being started right prior to xserver-xorg being configured. One hypothesis is that perhaps this (or some other step in the -fglrx config) resulted in changes that confused the subsequent xserver-xorg configuration step.