dpkg error processing xbase-clients

[mike <mike@immunochem.com>]

 I obtain the following errors on a recent upgrade of a 'woody' distribution:

 dpkg --configure -a                 
Setting up xbase-clients (4.1.0-9) ...
Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp:
drwxr-xr-x   93 root     root         8192 Jan 12 10:02 /etc
drwxr-xr-x   23 root     root         4096 Jan 12 09:52 /etc/X11
drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Jan 12 09:57 /etc/X11/xkb
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       274882 Jun  6  2001 /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
ERROR: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp 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 xbase-clients (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xkbsel:
 xkbsel depends on xbase-clients; however:
  Package xbase-clients is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xkbsel (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xbase-clients
 xkbsel


Any suggestions?
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