Re: Bug#148258: dpkg: those old conffile/directory/symlink blues
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 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.
Ok, here's what I need:
* I need /var/cache/apt/archive/xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_*.deb. Ie, the file
apt downloaded. Do not email it, but put it up on the web somewhere.
* The output of the following 3 commands:
* grep etc/X11/xkb/compiled /var/lib/dpkg/*.list
* grep var/lib/xkb /var/lib/dpkg/*.list
* ls -l /etc/X11/xkb
* What was the previous version(if any) of xbase-clients that you were
upgrading from? Was this a new install? Was there any output from
xbase-clients *before* the 'Setting up xbase-clients (4.1.0-16)' message
above?
> 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
All well and good, but you looking at the debs on auric, prooves nothing, as
the problem is occurring on Mark's system, not auric's.
We must know what is happening to his system; either at his system, or in
transit.
> 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
That --force option will have no affect.
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