On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:23:48AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Xfree86 4.2.1-21 is now available at the usual places. It appears to > fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98082. It > provides much smaller RPMs. Thanks you. > > When upgrading from 4.2.1-20, it installs just fine and appears to > work. > > When I tried to upgrade from 4.2.0-72, I get the following error: > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/X11/xkb: cpio: rename > failed - Is a directory > > On my sucessful upgrade (from 4.2.1.20): > > [root@xxxxxx root]# ll /etc/X11/xkb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 3 18:32 /etc/X11/xkb -> ../../usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > [root@xxxxxx root]# ll -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jul 3 18:32 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > > On my unsucessful upgrade: > > [root@xxxxxx autoupdate]# ll -d /etc/X11/xkb > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Mar 3 07:03 /etc/X11/xkb > [root@xxxxxx autoupdate]# ll -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 3 07:03 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -> ../../../../etc/X11/xkb > > This suggests that manually moving and symlinking to the directory will > solve the problem. I'll give that a try later when I have the time to > make a total bare metal backup of a test system. Meanwhile, if anyone > else wants to try it, good luck. [root@xxxxxx autoupdate]# rm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb [root@xxxxxx autoupdate]# mv /etc/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb [root@xxxxxx autoupdate]# ll -d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jul 9 19:31 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb [root@xxxxxx autoupdate]# ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /etc/X11/xkb [root@xxxxxx autoupdate]# ll /etc/X11/xkb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 9 19:32 /etc/X11/xkb -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb And the upgrade was sucessful. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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