On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:25:08 -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:21:40PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > previously: > > > > > But maybe I'll rerun aptitude dist-upgrade and see what happens, like > > you said. It seems, though, that I'll still have to reconfigure or > > reinstall x11-common and other X11R7-related packages. > > After waiting, I went ahead and did a dist-upgrade. It couldn't > automatically complete - I am somehow stuck with a slightly older > version of x11-common that can't be upgraded or configured. No matter > what I try, it barfs out because the include symlink is not right. > Perhaps I'll file a bug against package x11-common. > > dpkg reports a Failed 6.9.0.dfsg1-6 version of x11-common installed. I > am not certain exactly how it got put there, as reportbug indicates > there is a new version 7.0.22 available. But I can't seem to get it > installed because of the same errors occur whether I try to install > x11-common or install xorg - they occur at the same point.
I am on Sid with Xorg 7.0. $ dpkg -l x11-common ii x11-common 7.0.22 X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure /usr/include/X11 is a normal directory here: $ file /usr/include/X11/ /usr/include/X11/: directory $ ls -ld /usr/include/X11/ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2006-05-23 10:41 /usr/include/X11/ I think you could try to create the directory with the same owner and permissions and then repeat the upgrade. (I am not sure, but I guess "symbolic link does not exist" could also mean that the script tries to create a link _to_ this directory and fails because the target is not there.) If that fails it might be time for the "no more Mr. Nice Guy" approach: You could try "dpkg -r --purge" to remove the old x11-common package, using "--ignore-depends" and "--force-..." as necessary. It might also be possible to download the new package with "aptitude download" and then install it with "dpkg -i", again with "--force-..." if needed. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]