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Re: dpkg error processing xbase-clients



On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:05:46AM -0400, mike wrote:
>  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?

Please mail us the output of the following commands:

$ dpkg -S /etc/X11/xkb
$ dpkg -S /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
$ dpkg-deb -c /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients-4.1.0-9_i386.deb | grep xkbcomp

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