Re: Failed Debian X installation
when I wrote:
>> Looks like some package is violating Debian Policy, and unpacked
>> itself into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults.
>>
>> Can you mail this list the output of:
>>
>> dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
>>
>> please?
>
>
>OK - here it is...
>
> ######## debian:~ 1---> dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xgc
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XLoad
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xmessage
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCalc
> xsm: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xditview-chrtr
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xedit
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xditview
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XCalc-color
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XFontSel
> xsm: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XSm
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xman
> xcontrib, xcontrib: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Viewres
> ######## debian:~ 2--->
...I should also have mentioned that I found another directory
named app-defaults within /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults (ie.
an /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/app-defaults) so I did the
following and the installation now appears to have completed:
mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaultsXXX
mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaultsXXX/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
...so it could be the case that some script is trying to create
the directory in question by saying something like
mv .../someStagingDirectory/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
without checking if something by that name already exists.
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