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Package: x11-common
Version: 1:7.1.0-7
Severity: normal
The problem appeared during an upgrade of x11-common while the package
xtel had been recently installed:
# LANG=C apt-get install x11-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
x11-common (7.1.0-7 => 7.1.0-8)
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/336kB of archives.
After unpacking 8192B of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 177415 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace x11-common 1:7.1.0-7 (using
.../x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-8_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement x11-common ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-8_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11/fonts', which is also in package xtel
System startup links for /etc/init.d/x11-common already exist.
Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix....
Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix....
Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix....
Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix....
Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix....
Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix....
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-8_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
It might be due to the fact that /usr/lib/X11/fonts is a symbolic link:
# dpkg -S /usr/lib/X11/fonts
xtel, x11-common: /usr/lib/X11/fonts
# ls -l /usr/lib/X11/
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 2006-10-26 04:12 config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-11-23 05:16 fonts ->
../../X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-11-19 03:46 rstart
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-06-22 23:30 twm -> /etc/X11/twm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-25 01:44 x11perfcomp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-09 15:54 xdm
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-06-09 06:12 xedit
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-25 01:44 xsm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-26 10:30 xtel
Regards
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages x11-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration
management sy
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities
specific t
ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1
init scrip
x11-common recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only
x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console
x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error:
* x11-common/upgrade_issues:
* x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -5
x11-common/x11r6_bin_not_empty:
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--- Begin Message ---
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:34:40PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> I've just uploaded xutils-dev_7.1.ds-6 to unstable with high urgency.
> This fixes bug #403765, which caused the installation of x11-common to fail
> due to xtel having a conflicting directory. This was due to an imake
> variable, which I've patched to match the rest of the xfonts, so now xtel
> will install its fonts to the right location if it uses the new imake
> contained in this xutils-dev.
> xtel will also need a bin-NMU with the new xutils-dev. Julien Cristau
> noticed that this package hasn't had a maintainer upload since 2003, and is
> probably a very good candidate for removal from the archive. xtel is the
> only package that appears to use imake to install xfonts, so it's the only
> one that will need the bin-NMU to handle this. Thanks!
BinNMUs scheduled; closing the bug.
Thanks,
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