Bug#220875: marked as done (xbase-clients_4.2.1-14 fails during upgrade)
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From: Tony Whitmore <tonywhitmore@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: xbase-clients_4.2.1-14 fails during upgrade
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Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.2.1-13
Severity: normal
I have just run my daily upgrade cycle and pulled down the upgrades to the X packages, amongst others. The installation of xbase-clients, and the dependant
packages failed with this output from aptitude:
#### Output ####
The following packages will be upgraded:
xbase-clients
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1639kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Get:1 http://www.mirror.ac.uk unstable/main xbase-clients 4.2.1-14 [1639kB]
Fetched 1639kB in 27s (59.3kB/s)
(Reading database ... 33427 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xbase-clients 4.2.1-13 (using .../xbase-clients_4.2.1-14_i386.deb) ...
xbase-clients preinst error: be installed until this file is removed
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.2.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 74
xbase-clients postinst error: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp is not a symbolic link
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 74
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.2.1-14_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
Setting up xbase-clients (4.2.1-13) ...
xbase-clients postinst error: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp is not a symbolic link
dpkg: error processing xbase-clients (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 74
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xdm:
xdm depends on xbase-clients; however:
Package xbase-clients is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xdm (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of x-window-system:
x-window-system depends on xdm; however:
Package xdm is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing x-window-system (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of x-window-system-core:
x-window-system-core depends on xbase-clients; however:
Package xbase-clients is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing x-window-system-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
xbase-clients
xdm
x-window-system
x-window-system-core
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
###### EOF ######
Something that might affect this installation is that I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 from www.xfree86.org in order to get support for my graphics card. As I
understand it, debian maintains the packaged versions in order to satisfy the dependencies of X-based programs. :S
I've had a Google and this hasn't thrown anything up that *I* see as relevant. This is my first bug report, so I hope I haven't committed any faux pas :)
Cheers,
Tony
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.22 #1 Tue Nov 11 18:35:01 GMT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp-3.2 1:3.2.3-8 The GNU C preprocessor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdps1 4.2.1-14 Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii libfreetype6 2.1.5-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-14 X Athena widget set library
ii xlibmesa3-gl [libgl1] 4.2.1-14 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibmesa3-glu [libglu1] 4.2.1-14 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii xlibs 4.2.1-14 X Window System client libraries
-- debconf information:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8",
LANG = (unset)
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
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Subject: Re: Bug#220875: xbase-clients_4.2.1-14 fails during upgrade
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:08:12AM +0000, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 4.2.1-13
> Severity: normal
>
> I have just run my daily upgrade cycle and pulled down the upgrades to
> the X packages, amongst others. The installation of xbase-clients, and
> the dependant packages failed with this output from aptitude:
>
> #### Output ####
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> xbase-clients
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1639kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
> Get:1 http://www.mirror.ac.uk unstable/main xbase-clients 4.2.1-14 [1639k=
B]
> Fetched 1639kB in 27s (59.3kB/s)
> (Reading database ... 33427 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xbase-clients 4.2.1-13 (using .../xbase-clients_4.2.=
1-14_i386.deb) ...
> xbase-clients preinst error: be installed until this file is removed
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.2.1-14_i38=
6.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 74
> xbase-clients postinst error: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp is not a symbolic link
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 74
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.2.1-14_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recove=
r:
> Setting up xbase-clients (4.2.1-13) ...
> xbase-clients postinst error: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp is not a symbolic link
> dpkg: error processing xbase-clients (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 74
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xdm:
> xdm depends on xbase-clients; however:
> Package xbase-clients is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing xdm (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of x-window-system:
> x-window-system depends on xdm; however:
> Package xdm is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing x-window-system (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of x-window-system-core:
> x-window-system-core depends on xbase-clients; however:
> Package xbase-clients is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing x-window-system-core (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> xbase-clients
> xdm
> x-window-system
> x-window-system-core
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information... Done
> ###### EOF ######
>
> Something that might affect this installation is that I'm running
> XFree86 4.3.0 from www.xfree86.org in order to get support for my
> graphics card.
That is probably the cause of the problem. The Debian XFree86 packages
attempt to cope with being installed over non-Debian installations of
XFree86, but they will not clobber configuration files (for fear of
destroying valuable user data); you have managed to install a file where
the packages expect a symlink, and this situation cannot be tolerated by
the packages.
I suggest you have a look at what /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp is, and decide
whether you can get along without it.
Incidentally, the first error message you saw was a bit broken (this
will be fixed in xfree86 4.2.1-15); it should have read:
xbase-clients preinst error: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp exists and is not a
symbolic link; this package cannot be installed until this file is
removed.
Closing this bug as due to local system configuration.
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