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Re: xbase-clients preinst should have failed



On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:12:45PM +0100, Stephan Herrmann wrote:
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.1.0-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp:
> drwxr-xr-x   79 root     root         4096 Feb 28 16:06 /etc
> drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root         4096 Feb 28 16:05 /etc/X11
> drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Feb 28 16:05 /etc/X11/xkb
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       270718 Jan 20 16:06 /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 while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.1.0-14_i386.deb

Can you send this mailing list the output of:

# dpkg -S etc/X11/xkb

please?

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