Whoa ! That was it ! /bin/sh was linked to dash. I wonder how long that had existed here.
I just purged the packages "dash" and "ash" from this system which were not needed and caused this problem. These packages and all of the new X11 4.3.0-3 packages are now installed on this system. On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 18:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:11:11PM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > > Both packages will not install which causes ALL of the new X11 packages > > to not install. Here is the error messages: > > FWIW, they installed/upgraded just fine here. I even tried a clean > woody->sid chroot dist-upgrade. It works. > > > Preparing to replace libx11-6 4.3.0-2 (using > > .../libx11-6_4.3.0-3_i386.deb) ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 611: Syntax error: end of file unexpected > > (expecting ")") > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0-3_i386.deb > > (--unpack): > > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 > > What is your /bin/sh symlinked to? -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ridge National Laboratory [EMAIL PROTECTED]
