Hi, Meanwhile I started to think about this myself, and remembered that I installed a binary distribution of XFree86 4.2.0 over my debian package 4.1.0-something (because my hardware is not supported by 4.1.0). The error occured, when I unintentionally "upgraded" to 4.1.0-14. Quite probable, that this interferes with debian, right? Now I put xbase and related on "hold" to protect my manually installed version. Is this the right way to use XFree86 4.2.0 with debian? Which packages are affected? > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > 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? > Attached, just in case my analysis above is not correct. greetings Stephan
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