On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:11:35AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Branden Robinson writes: > > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:23:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Sorry. I've now attached a version that should work. > > > > It's been a few days. Do either of you gentlemen have anything to > > report? > > Yes - I've been away for the weekend :p > > > If not, I will have to close this report as being unreproducible, and > > having a submitter unresponsive to requests for further information. > > Given the first script you sent was buggy, I think a little more > patience might be called for. I generally give people 30 days. > Anyway: > > bash-2.05a$ /tmp/bugs.sh > bugs.sh warning: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp is not a symbolic link > Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: > drwxr-xr-x 129 root root 12288 Jun 2 00:04 /etc > drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Jun 6 20:25 /etc/X11 > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Mar 26 00:41 /etc/X11/xkb > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 275980 Mar 7 2003 > /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp > Searching for overlapping packages... > no overlaps found. > bugs.sh error: bad symbolic links on system Something, over a year ago, created a plain file where there should have been a symbolic link. This could have been caused by an old buggy xfree86 package, possibly an unofficial version. I would try: $ dpkg -P --force-depends xlibs $ apt-get install xlibs ...and see if things are set right. -- G. Branden Robinson | Religion consists in a set of Debian GNU/Linux | things which the average man thinks branden@debian.org | he believes and wishes he was http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | certain of. -- Mark Twain
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