[solved] Beware of xserver-xorg being removed today

[der_bud]

(Edit: reading the posts from Sep 28 and my own experience I mark this as solved now)

Due to ungoing transition as of http://release.debian.org/transitions/ :

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Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
  xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
  xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
  xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
  xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dtv-scan-tables
The following packages will be upgraded:
  acpid apt apt-utils at-spi2-core console-setup console-setup-linux davfs2
  debhelper dh-python dvb-apps fakeroot gparted grub-common grub-pc
  grub-pc-bin grub2-common hpijs-ppds hplip hplip-data init-system-helpers
  initramfs-tools keyboard-configuration libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12
  libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatspi2.0-0 libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2
  libconvert-binhex-perl libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2
  libgail18 libgee-0.8-2 libglu1-mesa libgmime-2.6-0 libgoa-1.0-0
  libgoa-1.0-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libgudev-1.0-0 libhpmud0
  liblapack3 libnuma1 libpam-systemd libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal
  libpython2.7-stdlib libsane-hpaio libsdl1.2debian libsystemd-daemon0
  libsystemd-journal0 libsystemd-login0 libtbb2 libtext-template-perl libudev1
  linux-headers-3.11-1.towo-siduction-686 linux-headers-siduction-686
  linux-image-3.11-1.towo-siduction-686 linux-image-siduction-686 localepurge
  mc mc-data printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-hpijs python2.7
  python2.7-minimal squashfs-tools systemd tar udev usb-modeswitch
  usb-modeswitch-data vim vim-common vim-runtime xserver-common
  xserver-xorg-core
79 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 16 to remove and 0 not upgraded. xserver-xorg not reinstallable after that, xorg-input-abi-16 problem. Beware and wait.

[timc]

Thanks, der_bud. My problems are similar, but different:

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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-r128
The following NEW packages will be installed:
    dtv-scan-tables
The following packages will be upgraded:
    dvb-apps initramfs-tools libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libtracker-sparql-0.16-0 locales multiarch-support tar xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
23 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


I am fairly certain my system requires xserver-xorg-video-ati, so I aborted. Maybe later.

Tim

[absolut]

this seems not to be an issue for me (64bit)... only xserver-xorg-video-fbdev is marked to be removed.

[piper]

64bit here

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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-r128
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dtv-scan-tables
The following packages will be upgraded:
  at-spi2-core debhelper dvb-apps gparted initramfs-tools libatspi2.0-0 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6:i386 libc6-dev libc6-dev-i386 libc6-dev-x32
  libc6-i386 libc6-i686:i386 libc6-x32 libconvert-binhex-perl libgail18 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common liblapack3 libpthread-stubs0-dev libsoundtouch0
  lintian locales multiarch-support tar xserver-common xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
  xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
35 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[piper]

this seems not to be an issue for me (64bit)... only xserver-xorg-video-fbdev is marked to be removed.

Do you have the default xserver-xorg-input-all installed, or did you remove that and install just what you needed from xorg (usually what I do, but right now .. lazy)

[absolut]

piper, you are right: xserver-xorg-input-all is not installed on my system, cause i only need radeon (and vesa as fallback)

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dpkg -l | awk '/xserver/ {print $2}'
x11-xserver-utils
xserver-common
xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-vesa

[dibl]

Good information -- thanks piper.  With xserver-xorg-input-all installed, I had the problem as written by der_bud.  I remove-purged it, and now there is only a removal of xserver-xorg-video-fbdev.  I went ahead with the d-u.  On this system with proprietary nvidia driver, I think I do need the xserver-xorg-video-fbdev package for the tty console to display in higher resolution than 640x480, but I don't need to reboot any time soon so it will be OK for awhile.

[seasons]

@dibl: fbdev may have moved from xserver-xorg-video-fbdev package to xserver-xfbdev.

[elveres]

Abhängigkeitsproblem/ati-wrapper nicht installierbar:

xserver-xorg-video-ati : Hängt ab von: xserver-xorg-video-r128 soll aber nicht installiert werden
xserver-xorg-video-r128 : Hängt ab von: xorg-video-abi-12 ist aber nicht installierbar

[dibl]

@dibl: fbdev may have moved from xserver-xorg-video-fbdev package to xserver-xfbdev.

Thank you.  A reboot this morning indicates no issues of any kind -- everything is working well, including the tty consoles.

[absolut]

i finally got bitten in the ass, by this transition. actually, it was not the transition itself, but my great idea of removing the "not required" xserver-xorg-video-* libraries some time ago.

don't ask me, why, but i have removed xserver-xorg-video-ati and other dependencies back then. everything was fine until i have dist-upgraded and rebooted...
the result: because of the missing wrapper (xserver-xorg-video-ati was gone), the DPMS of the monitors were not handled correctly and i have lost my dual-screen setup on the desktop at work! (or maybe something similar was the issue)

to cut the story short: i have downgraded to xorg from stable for now, and hope that the transition will finish soon.

[seasons]

You may be hitting this "bug": http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655693

I think part of the problem is that video-ati package depends on video-r128 package, but it doesn't build with the newer X because X stripped out XAA: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724331

EDIT: It looks like there is a fixed version of the video-r128 package in the sidcution repo, so you should now be able to install video-ati package without issue (at least I can).

[elveres]

Abhängigkeitsproblem/ati-wrapper nicht installierbar:

xserver-xorg-video-ati : Hängt ab von: xserver-xorg-video-r128 soll aber nicht installiert werden
xserver-xorg-video-r128 : Hängt ab von: xorg-video-abi-12 ist aber nicht installierbar

@ working
installed xserver-xorg-video-ati from siduction-repo: kms working again!
could delete my extra generated x-org.config....

[Santa]

It should be fixed now, please let us know if you still have problems.

[drgg]

I still have the folling issue:

Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
  fglrx-legacy-control fglrx-legacy-driver
Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert (Upgrade):
  xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-video-ati
  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
  xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-qxl
  xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa
  xserver-xorg-video-vmware