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
