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dpkg: those old conffile/directory/symlink blues



Package: dpkg
Version: n/a
Severity: normal

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 06:16:05PM -0700, Mark Robinson wrote:
> Setting up xbase-clients (4.1.0-16) ...
> Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/compiled:
> drwxr-xr-x   71 root     root         4096 May 26 18:14 /etc
> drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 May 26 18:14 /etc/X11
> drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 May 26 18:14 /etc/X11/xkb
> /etc/X11/xkb/compiled: nonexistent
> ERROR: /etc/X11/xkb/compiled symbolic link does not exist.  Either the package
> didn't ship the symbolic link (a bug in the package), or dpkg failed to unpack
> it to the filesystem (a bug in dpkg).
> 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
> 
> /etc/X11/xkb/compiled does not exist on my system.

branden@auric:~/pool/main/x/xfree86$ for F in xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_*.deb; do echo -n "$F: "; dpkg-deb -c $F | grep etc/X11/xkb/compiled; done
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_alpha.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-16 18:48:00 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_arm.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-17 10:54:46 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_hppa.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-16 19:17:13 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_i386.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-16 08:26:03 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_ia64.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-17 03:15:10 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_m68k.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-18 03:19:27 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_mips.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-17 11:24:42 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_mipsel.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-17 07:18:11 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_powerpc.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-16 18:50:38 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_s390.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-17 05:07:35 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb
xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_sparc.deb: lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2002-04-17 01:49:41 ./etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> /var/lib/xkb

Mr. Robinson, does the problem go away if you install the package with the
following command?:

dpkg --force-confmiss --install xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_i386.deb

(I presume you're using an i386 machine.  If not, please substitute
your architecture.)

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |       The key to being a Southern
Debian GNU/Linux                   |       Baptist: It ain't a sin if you
branden@debian.org                 |       don't get caught.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |       -- Anthony Davidson

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