upgrade error
I'm running testing/unstable and got the following error. I was trying to
apt-get install dcgui and it needed to change a lot of Gnome and X support
software, and this is where dpkg freaked out.
Preparing to replace xbase-clients 4.1.0-16 (using
.../xbase-clients_4.2.1-5_i386.deb) ...
ERROR: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp exists and is not a symbolic link. This package
cannot be installed until this file is removed.
Aborting installation of xbase-clients package.
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.2.1-5_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp:
drwxr-xr-x 81 root root 4096 Feb 10 11:36 /etc
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jan 24 15:24 /etc/X11
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 26 14:30 /etc/X11/xkb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 270718 Jan 20 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 while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.2.1-5_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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