On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 04:04:44PM +0300, Tero Laitinen wrote: > Unfortunately, the script above did not help. > > The script said: > ---------- > napalmi:/home/tero# ./script "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit" > Searching for overlapping packages... > no overlaps found. > ---------- > > I tried to execute "apt-get dist-upgrade" again but same error persists. > "ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit symbolic link does not exist. " > > Any clue what might help?
Hmmm. That just really shouldn't happen.
The xbase-clients preinst says:
if [ "$1" = "install" -o "$1" = "upgrade" ]; then
# xinit and xsm dirs moved to /etc/X11 in 4.x
for DIR in xinit xsm; do
if [ -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$DIR -a ! -L /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$DIR ]; then
message "Note: Removing obsolete /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$DIR directory."
mv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$DIR /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$DIR.moved-by-preinst
fi
done
check_symlinks_and_warn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit \
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm \
/etc/X11/xkb/compiled \
/etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
...so that should nuke any existing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit, and give
you a warning if something fishy is going on.
Later, the xbase-clients postinst does the following:
check_symlinks_and_bomb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit \
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm \
/etc/X11/xkb/compiled \
/etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
# now safe to remove old xinit and xsm dirs
for DIR in xinit xsm; do
if [ -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$DIR.moved-by-preinst -a -L
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$DIR ]; then
rm -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$DIR.moved-by-preinst
fi
done
That "check_symlinks_and_bomb" function is what you're seeing.
What exactly is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit on your system?
Can you show us the output of "ls -dl /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit"?
After that, try just "apt-get install xbase-clients".
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