On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:58:46AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies.
What list? I'm leaving the To: as your Reply-to asked here though. > > Package: xterm > > What version of xterm are you using? > > $ dpkg -l xterm > > will tell you. As I said, it's not xterm specifically, it's "some" X package(s), but the versions are likely all the same, let's see. ii xterm 4.2.1-6 X terminal emulator > > Sid, today's dinstall run. I figured that was sufficient. > As you can see, the output is just a warning message, and since you saw > no error messages from Perl, it's likely everything executed just fine. So, since you were "which'ing" for readlink, you obviously need it later. The lack of perl errors shows that it behaved later when needed, so therefore the dozen or so packages that complained are just "noisy" not in need of some reinstall or the like? > What's interesting is that "which" is failing to find an executable in > /bin/readlink. > > 1) What's your $PATH in a shell with the same environment as the one in > which you upgraded xterm? # echo $PATH /root/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin > 2) What are the file permissions on /bin/readlink? -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3484 Feb 19 03:33 /bin/readlink > 3) What's the output of "which readlink" in a shell with the same > environment as the one in which you upgraded xterm? # which readlink bash: which: command not found It looks like your shell script was calling a command that doesn't exist? -- Please (OpenPGP) encrypt all mail whenever possible. Request the following Public Keys for Lazarus Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Type Bits/KeyID Fingerprint DSA KeyID: vvvv vvvv ElGamal: 2048g/3E028FE1 4146 29A5 AE66 2E11 7307 F3B4 03A4 DD1D 3F8F 30DF
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