Bug#375390: Seems impossible to reconfigure or install x11-common 7.0.22
Package: x11-common
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
Severity: important
Yesterday, I tried to install/upgrade X11/xorg to 7.0. Despite thinking
that it might proceed smoothly, it got tangled up not being able to
configure x11-common, instead it leaves a broken 6.9.0 version of
x11-common in place.
I've tried aptitude dist-upgrade, purge, dpkg --configure -a numerous
times, nothing seems to be getting me past this point.
The symlink (I think) should be /usr/include/X11 ->../X11R6/include/X11.
However, dpkg --reconfigure -a barfs here, not processing the symlink
correctly.
Here is a snippet of such a session:
x11-common postinst warning: /usr/include/X11 symbolic link points to wrong
location ../X11R6/include/X11/
Analyzing /usr/include/X11:
Analyzing ../X11R6/include/X11/:
/../X11R6: nonexistent; directory contents of /../:
Searching for overlapping packages...
dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
x11-common
I couldn't include the output of the directory contents - it prints the
root '/' directory contents.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.2 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
x11-common recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: 0
x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
x11-common/experimental_packages:
x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
* x11-common/x11r6_bin_not_empty:
* x11-common/upgrade_issues:
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