Package: x11-common Version: 1:7.1.0-7 Severity: normal The problem appeared during an upgrade of x11-common while the package xtel had been recently installed:
# LANG=C apt-get install x11-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: x11-common (7.1.0-7 => 7.1.0-8) 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/336kB of archives. After unpacking 8192B of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 177415 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace x11-common 1:7.1.0-7 (using .../x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-8_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement x11-common ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-8_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11/fonts', which is also in package xtel System startup links for /etc/init.d/x11-common already exist. Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix.... Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix.... Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix.... Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix.... Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix.... Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix.... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.0-8_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) It might be due to the fact that /usr/lib/X11/fonts is a symbolic link: # dpkg -S /usr/lib/X11/fonts xtel, x11-common: /usr/lib/X11/fonts # ls -l /usr/lib/X11/ total 32 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 2006-10-26 04:12 config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-11-23 05:16 fonts -> ../../X11R6/lib/X11/fonts drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-11-19 03:46 rstart lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-06-22 23:30 twm -> /etc/X11/twm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-25 01:44 x11perfcomp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-09 15:54 xdm drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-06-09 06:12 xedit drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-08-25 01:44 xsm drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-26 10:30 xtel Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages x11-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip x11-common recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users: Console Users Only x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users: console x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value/error: * x11-common/upgrade_issues: * x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value: -5 x11-common/x11r6_bin_not_empty: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
