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Re: dpkg error



On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 05:19:01PM +0800, Martin Sulzmann wrote:
> Any ideas how to fix the following?
> 
> Thanks,
>    Martin
> 
>  apt-get install  gimp1.2
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, gimp1.2 is already the newest version.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 210  not upgraded.
> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Setting up xbase-clients (4.1.0-16) ...
> Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp:
> drwxr-xr-x   73 root     root         4096 Nov 25 17:09 /etc
> drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Nov 22 16:03 /etc/X11
> drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         4096 Nov 22 16:07 /etc/X11/xkb
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       270718 Jan 21  2002 /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 processing xbase-clients (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  xbase-clients
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks for the report.  We need a little more information:

  * We need /var/cache/apt/archive/xbase-clients_4.1.0-16_*.deb.  I.e.,
    the file apt downloaded.  Please do not email it, but put it up on
    the web somewhere and provide us with a URL.

  * The output of the following 3 commands:
    + grep xkbcomp /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
    + ls -l /etc/X11 /etc/X11/xkb
    + ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/X11R6/lib/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?

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