woody: installation failure of xlibs
Hello debian-x,
During the installation of mozilla from testing I got this error:
(am in the process of switching to testing from stable)
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 187 not upgraded.
8 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up xlibs (4.1.0-9) ...
Analyzing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults:
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Oct 20 1924 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 17 1924 /usr/X11R6
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 20 22:27 /usr/X11R6/lib
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 20 22:30 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 20 22:36 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults is not a symbolic link. The package
preinst script should have failed.
Please report the package name, version, and the text of the above error
message(s) to <debian-x@lists.debian.org>.
dpkg: error processing xlibs (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk1.2:
libgtk1.2 depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however:
Package xlibs is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgtk1.2 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxaw6:
libxaw6 depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however:
Package xlibs is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libxaw6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxaw7:
libxaw7 depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however:
Package xlibs is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libxaw7 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xlib6g:
xlib6g depends on xlibs; however:
Package xlibs is not configured yet.
xlib6g depends on libxaw6; however:
Package libxaw6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xlib6g (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xcontrib:
xcontrib depends on xlib6g (>= 3.3-5); however:
Package xlib6g is not configured yet.
xcontrib depends on xlib6g (>= 3.3.5); however:
Package xlib6g is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xcontrib (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mozilla:
mozilla depends on libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.7-1); however:
Package libgtk1.2 is not configured yet.
mozilla depends on xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4); however:
Package xlib6g is not configured yet.
mozilla depends on xcontrib; however:
Package xcontrib is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mozilla (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xlibs-dev:
xlibs-dev depends on xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11); however:
Package xlibs is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xlibs-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
xlibs
libgtk1.2
libxaw6
libxaw7
xlib6g
xcontrib
mozilla
xlibs-dev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Best regards,
Andreas mailto:ahatz@greenflow.com.au
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