Re: dpkg error (while performing dist-upgrade)

[Tero Laitinen <tero.laitinen@audioriders.fi>]

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:58:00PM +0300, Tero Laitinen wrote:
> > I tried to upgrade my Debian distribution but following happened during
> > the configuration process. I was instructed to e-mail the error report
> > here.
> >
> > -------------------------------
> > ...
> > ...
> > Setting up xbase-clients (4.2.1-3) ...
> > ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit 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
> >
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > So, could you tell me if the package is broken or is it just my system
> > that is causing problems? Thanks in advance.
>
> Sure, run the following shell script with an argument of
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit".
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> message () {
>   # pretty-print messages of arbitrary length
>   echo "$*" | fold -s -w ${COLUMNS:-80} >&2;
> }
>
> message "Searching for overlapping packages..."
> DPKG_INFO_DIR=/var/lib/dpkg/info
> if [ -d $DPKG_INFO_DIR ]; then
>   if [ "$(echo $DPKG_INFO_DIR/*.list)" != "$DPKG_INFO_DIR/*.list" ]; then
>     POSSIBLE_CULPRITS=$(ls -1 $DPKG_INFO_DIR/*.list | egrep -v \
>       "(xbase-clients|xfree86-common|xfs|xlibs)")
>     SMOKING_GUNS=$(grep -l "$1" $POSSIBLE_CULPRITS)
>     if [ -n "$SMOKING_GUNS" ]; then
>       BAD_PACKAGES=$(printf "\\n")
>       for F in $SMOKING_GUNS; do
>         # too bad you can't nest parameter expansion voodoo
>         P=${F%*.list}      # strip off the trailing ".list"
>         PACKAGE=${P##*/}   # strip off the directories
>         BAD_PACKAGES=$(printf "%s\n%s" "$BAD_PACKAGES" "$PACKAGE")
>       done
>       message "The following packages appear to have file overlaps" \
>               "with the XFree86 packages; these packages are either very" \
>               "old, or in violation of Debian Policy.  Try upgrading each
> of" \ "these packages to the latest available version if possible:" \ "for
> example, with the command \"apt-get install\".  If no" \ "newer version of
> a package is available, you will have to" \ "remove it: for example, with
> the command \"apt-get remove\". " \ "If even the latest available version
> of the package has this" \ "file overlap, please file a bug against that
> package with the" \ "Debian Bug Tracking System.  You may want to refer the
> package" \ "maintainer to section 12.8 of the Debian Policy manual."
> message "The overlapping packages are: $BAD_PACKAGES"
>     else
>       message "no overlaps found."
>     fi
>   else
>     message "cannot search; no matches for $DPKG_INFO_DIR/*.list."
>   fi
> else
>   message "cannot search; $DPKG_INFO_DIR does not exist."
> fi
>
> exit 0
>
> (The above functionality is built-in to XFree86 4.2.1-7 and later.)

Unfortunately, the script above did not help. 

The script said:
----------
napalmi:/home/tero# ./script "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit"
Searching for overlapping packages...
no overlaps found.
----------

I tried to execute "apt-get dist-upgrade" again but same error persists.
"ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit symbolic link does not exist. "

Any clue what might help?

Best regards,

Tero Laitinen