I did a reinstall of xbase-clients and it did create the symlink. It appears possible that an 'event' involving the 2.6.0-pre3 kernel might have led to some silent Reiserfs deletions. That kernel is not ready for prime time.
dpkg -S still shows no owner of the symlink in question: xkb/2#dpkg -S `pwd`/compiled* dpkg: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled not found. On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:45, Branden Robinson wrote: > That's not the only way to look for it. Dpkg manages symlinks to > directories poorly, so you'll find that the xbase-clients preinst and > postinst scripts manage this symlink. OK, I'd been operating on the mistaken assumption that if dpkg -S doesn't find a given file, the file is not managed by Debian. Obviously that isn't right. If you can recommend the procedure I should have followed to figure out which package was responsible for this file, and thus which to try reinstalling, I can avoid filing similar mistaken reports. I picked xlibs because I could find no owner of ..../compiled, but the parent dir is owned by xlibs: xkb/2#dpkg -S `pwd` xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb Jim
