Bug#531611: gnome-session: postinst fails when calling update-alternatives

[Wolf Wiegand]

Hi,

Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > 
> > > For users, the simple work-around is "rm 
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz" but please provide the
> > > infos requested above before-hand.
> > 
> > I just did this after lxsession.postinst failed with the same error.
> > However, /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager now points to lxsession,
> > and not to my old alternative (icewm-session) anymore. Output from
> > lxsession.postinst:
> > 
> > Setting up lxsession (0.3.8+svn20090521-1) ...
> > update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/lxsession to provide 
> > /usr/bin/x-session-manager (x-session-manager) in auto mode.
> 
> This is not the consequence of the removal of
> /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz. 

Ok, good.

> It might be the case if
> you removed /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager however (but I
> never advised that).

No, I didn't do that, so it was probably caused by some other quirk on
my machine. I couldn't reproce this behaviour, either.


Cheers,

Wolf
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