Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.0.20 Severity: grave X-Debbugs-CC: "Henk Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
x11-common postinst error: trouble with /usr/include/X11 We get this problem on two different systems -- an etch AMD-64 (installed as Debian-AMD64, but upgraded as Debian since a few weeks ago), and etch running on a 32-bit Athlon (installed as sarge, subsequently dist-upgraded to etch). We are trying to upgrade our machines from xorg 6.9 to xorg 7.0, and have been stymied by the installation behaviour of x11-common, specifically the one that appears as /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_amd64.deb on the AMD64, and /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.20_i386.deb on the 32-bit system. The post-install script complains that the symbolic link /usr/include/X11 does not exist. On the AMD-64 we managed to get past this point, but we're not sure exactly what we did that did the trick. We tried uninstalling x11-common in order to install it again. Forcing uninstallation and installation did not *seem* to work, but we are not familiar enough with the behavious of apt-get to know this for sure. We succeeded on tha AMD-64 only after deleting about a hundred packages that directly or indirectly depended on x11-common, then uninstalling and reinstalling it. On the 32-bit machine we are utterly at a standstill, since there are far, far too many packages to delete by hand. In case it's relevant, both machines use nvidia drivers built from the Debian nveidia-kernel-source package. On the 32-bit machine, we took inspiration from someone's advice on the net, and tried creating the /usr/include/X11 directory ourselves, since although x11-common complains about a missing symbolic link, it is apparently supposed to end up with a directory. But in this case it complains that /usr/include/X11 is not a symbolic link. If we re-create the symbolic link as it appears on other systems still using 6.9, it reports that the symbolic link does not exist, and when we check afterwards, the symbolic link has disappeared. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Henk Boom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AMD-64: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux april 2.6.12-1-amd64-generic #1 Wed Sep 28 02:05:15 CEST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version Version: 2.3.6-7 Athlon 32: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/henk$ uname -a Linux henk-linux 2.6.15-1-686 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:27:08 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/henk$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version Version: 2.3.6-7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/henk$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]