x11-common is uninstallable

[Michael Bienia]

Selecting previously deselected package x11-common.
(Reading database ... 75415 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/config: line 28: laptop-detect: command not found
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 35: laptop-detect: command not found
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: line 32: laptop-detect: command not found
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

after I installed laptop-detect it still doesn't install:

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 75434 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_7.0.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Preinst dies if you don't have xserver-common installed anymore, too (say, if you're doing a fresh install, or upgraded with "apt-get --purge dist-upgrade")

Tossing a set -x in the preinst and repacking the deb, we get a tail of:

+ read -r _db_internal_line
+ RET='10 xserver-common/xwrapper/allowed_users doesn'\''t exist'
+ return 10

[Nafallo Bjälevik (nafallo)]

I can confirm this one on amd64. I guess it's time to "_totally_ blame daniels!" :-).

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

get your blame while it's hot.

xorg (7.0.0-0ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low

  * Add laptop-detect dependency to x11-common, make preinst slightly more,
    er, robust, in the face of failure (closes: Malone#28911).
  * Add dependencies in laptop-detect, xresprobe, mdetect and discover1 to
    xserver-xorg.

 -- Daniel Stone <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:33:23 +1100