xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb

[Nathan Peet Maier <nathan@earthlink.net>]

My possible bug report.  I downloaded this package from the progeny archive.



(Reading database ... 109208 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-16 (using xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb) ...
Warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb symbolic link points to the wrong place.  
Removing.
Unpacking replacement xlibs ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): short read in buffer_copy (failed to write to 
pipe in cop
y)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb (--install):
short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during 
`./usr/share/doc/xlibs/chang
elog.Debian.gz')
Analyzing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:
drwxr-xr-x   64 root     root         4096 Oct 20 14:58 /usr
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 May  4 21:49 /usr/X11R6
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Oct 20 20:19 /usr/X11R6/lib
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 Oct 20 20:19 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb: nonexistent
ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb 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 while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
xlibs_4.1.0-16_i386.deb


-Nathan P. Maier