Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Tres Hofmeister wrote: > > > > On 1998.11.05, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > : > > : Craig R. Hodges wrote: > > : > > > : > I just apt-get dist-upgrade to the latest version of slink. > > : > When I attempt to run netscape-comm 4.5 I get the following error: > > : > > > : > netscape: locale `C' not supported. > > : > > : The problem is a broken X package(s). There is probably a better > > : solution, but I used an older xbase, the one that is about 2 meg in > > : size (not the newer one in slink) and extracted (*not* by installing) > > : just the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale directory. This ended the problems > > : with NS. > > > > Hmm, all I had to do on my slink system was: > > > > cd /usr/lib/X11 > > ln -s locale.xlib6-old locale > > > > In fact, a diff -r showed the "old" locale directory from a > > Debian 2.0 system to be identical to the new locale.xlib6-old directory. > > Thus the link. > > > > Just setting the XNLSPATH environment variable to the old > > directory didn't work, for some reason. > > > > Yes, someone else mentioned 'locale.xlib6-old'. Unfortunately, for > whatever reason, I did *not* have this dir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 > (because of symlinks, this is the same as /usr/lib/X11). In fact I ran a > search for the files in the locale subdir, and didn't find them anywhere > on my system. My system began as Debian 2.0 (install) and is updated > against slink regularly. >
On my system the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ somehow managed to become a symbolic link to itself (I think or maybe it was just a circular series of symbolic links). Which lead to the error message saying that the level of symbolic links was too deep. I fixed the problem by removing the nasty symbolic link /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ and then reinstalled xlib6g to get the proper files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/.
