Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: normal _smoking_guns=$(grep -l "$1" $_possible_culprits) It's possible for this grep to not turn up anything, and if it does, the postinst will crash here, exiting with 1 and no indication of the problem. If || true is added to the end, it behaves as designed, warning: no overlaps found. x11-common postinst error: bad symbolic links on system Which is not the most useful error, but better than nothing. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages x11-common depends on: ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.102 Debian Configuration Management Sy ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii lsb-base 3.1-8 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip x11-common recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- see shy jo
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