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Prefect
07-08-2002, 11:09 PM
All my package dependencies reply upon one package called "xlibs" that cannot be configured. Here is the error message:

prefect:/home/moneppo# dpkg --configure xlibs
Setting up xlibs (4.1.0-17) ...
Analyzing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 21 19:34 /usr
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 21 18:26 /usr/X11R6
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 21 18:26 /usr/X11R6/lib
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 20 11:07 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jun 21 18:26 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -> ../../../../etc/X11/xkb
Analyzing ../../../../etc/X11/xkb:
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jun 21 12:37 /..
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jun 21 12:37 /../..
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jun 21 12:37 /../../..
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jun 21 12:37 /../../../..
drwxr-xr-x 76 root root 4096 Jun 22 17:46 /../../../../etc
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jun 21 20:53 /../../../../etc/X11
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 21 18:35 /../../../../etc/X11/xkb
ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb symbolic link points to the wrong place. This
should have been fixed by the package preinst script.
dpkg: error processing xlibs (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
xlibs

help?

I've tried a couple reinstalls of the package, but no avail.

sarah31
07-08-2002, 11:14 PM
have you tried removing the corrupted link?

Prefect
07-08-2002, 11:28 PM
The link needed to be there, so I thought it out and realized it just needed to be a link to where the *real* libraries were.

Thanks for the help.

sarah31
07-08-2002, 11:37 PM
good show so everything is working now?

Prefect
07-09-2002, 01:17 AM
Like magic.