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Re: Failed Debian X installation



On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 06:42:54PM -0500, Michael O'Donnell wrote:
> I saw this email address while reading through the logs
> generated during a failed X installation, so I include my
> /etc/apt/sources.list and relevant portions of the log below:
[...]
> Setting up xlibs (4.1.0-13) ...
> Analyzing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults:
> drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         4096 Dec  8  2010 /usr
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Dec  8  2010 /usr/X11R6
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Feb 23 18:05 /usr/X11R6/lib
> drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root         4096 Feb 23 18:16 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Feb 23 18:24 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
> ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults 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 xlibs (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxaw6:
>  libxaw6 depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0); however:
>   Package xlibs is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing libxaw6 (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xlib6g:
>  xlib6g depends on xlibs; however:
>   Package xlibs is not configured yet.
>  xlib6g depends on libxaw6; however:
>   Package libxaw6 is not configured yet.

Looks like some package is violating Debian Policy, and unpacked itself
into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults.

Can you mail this list the output of:

dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults

please?

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