Bug#130073: marked as done (xlibs: symlink loop created in /etc/X11/app-defaults by postinst)
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Subject: xlibs: symlink loop created in /etc/X11/app-defaults by postinst
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Package: xlibs
Version: 4.1.0-9
Severity: normal
I had a problem starting up configuring wn because as it was indexing
my folders it got caught in a symlink loop. There was a symlink in
/etc/X11/app-defaults pointing back to itself.
I tracked this down to the xlibs postinst, by first deleting the loop
symlink and then executing this ln line by itself:
----
# this can be placed in xlibs.links after woody releases
ln -sf /etc/X11/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults || true
check_symlinks_and_bomb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb \
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
----
Because my system already has a link in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults pointing to /etc/X11/app-defaults,
when the subject link is created, a loop is formed.
This might have happened during the upgrade to 4.1? The original
loop symlink was created on my computer on Dec 13.
I guess maybe the check_symlinks_and_bomb subroutine doesn't look for
loops; I couldn't tell.
In my system, all works well if the original symlink is removed before
creating the new one:
rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
ln -sf /etc/X11/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults || true
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux Obsession 2.2.19 #1 Sat Apr 14 23:20:24 CDT 2001 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xlibs depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfreetype6 2.0.5-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-9 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii xlibs 4.1.0-9 X Window System client libraries
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: xlibs: symlink loop created in /etc/X11/app-defaults by postinst
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This problem was fixed in 4.2.1-3 by letting dpkg take care of this
symlink.
xfree86 (4.2.1-3) unstable; urgency=3Dlow
[...]
* debian/xlibs.links: add app-defaults link from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 to
/etc/X11
* debian/xlibs.postinst.in: stop manually creating symlink from
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to /etc/X11/app-defaults now that woody
has released
[...]
-- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:09:15 -0500
Another correct fix, I think, would have been to use "ln -nsf" instead of "=
ln
-sf".
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