Bug#213357: marked as done (dpkg: sometimes doesn't unpack symlinks in package payload)
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From: "Matthew J. Lockner" <lockner@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: xbase-clients: postinst rightly b0rked - bogus symlink-related failures
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Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.2.1-11
Severity: normal
(I'm not sure why reportbug no longer has higher severity levels, but this
is surely higher than normal...)
Running testing, and going through the usual aptitude update/dist-upgrade
rigamaroll last night, dpkg started shouting at me about xbase-clients
failing its postinst (and thus preventing configuration of most of X).
Basically, check_symlinks_and_bomb() in the postinst was bombing, for the
right reasons - but I don't know what caused the relevant symlinks to be
missing in the first place. The ones it complained about come right from
that same script:
check_symlinks_and_bomb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit \
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm \
/etc/X11/xkb/compiled \
/etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
I was able to fix the breakage by purging and then reinstalling
xbase-clients via dpkg with --force-depends.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux warlock 2.4.20 #2 SMP Mon Jul 7 14:31:39 CDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp-3.2 1:3.2.3-8 The GNU C preprocessor
hi libc6 2.3.2-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdps1 4.2.1-11 Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii libfreetype6 2.1.4-4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-11 X Athena widget set library
ii xlibmesa3-gl [libgl1] 4.2.1-11 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibmesa3-glu 4.2.1-11 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii xlibs 4.2.1-11 X Window System client libraries
-- debconf information:
* xbase-clients/default_100dpi:
* xbase-clients/default_nolisten_tcp:
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Subject: Re: Bug#213357: dpkg: Reproducibly omits one symlink
From: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
To: Frank =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <frank@kuesterei.ch>, 213357-done@bugs.debian.org
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On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 18:48 +0200, Frank K=C3=BCster wrote:
> "Frank K=C3=BCster" <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote, that's me:
> > On my system dpkg reproducibly fails to install a specific symlink,
> > /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat pointing to
> > /etc/texmf/language.dat. This occurs in a package not yet in the
> > archive.
>=20
> Excuse me for that. It turned out to be a bug in the postinst script -
> previously the link had to be deleted under certain conditions, and this
> was still in and always triggered here...
>=20
No worries,
Scott
--=20
Have you ever, ever felt like this?
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