Re: broken X after upgrade in etch

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Alexandru Cardaniuc <cardaniuc@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi All!
>
> It seems I have solved the problem.
>
> # dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_amd64.deb
>
> After that the upgrade proceeded fine and everything seems to work now!
>
> # ls -l /usr/X11R6/
> total 4
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 2006-06-03 14:10 bin -> ../bin
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-06-03 14:11 lib
>
> Is that fine now? Do I need to erase the lib directory?

No. Use of force is never fine.

Please file a bug with your initial log.

MfG
        Goswin