[FSUG-Bangalore] sources.list, anyone?

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

--- Sajith T S <sajith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Did a dist-upgrade to testing, and now I have got
> rather broken X
> fonts, a missing gnome panel and a lot of missing
> other software,

Yes, its happens during upgrades. If you can zero on
the problem you can always submit a bug report.

The first place is look at the Bugs page of the
package http://bugs.debian.org/pkg_name and also look
into the package source itself. Most often the problem
is with the post/pre installer files, broken packages,
dependencies issues.


>      Unpacking x11-common (from
> .../x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb) ...
>      dpkg: error processing
>         
>
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb
>          (--unpack):
>      trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is
> also in package
>         catdoc
>      Errors were encountered while processing:
>        
>
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.22_i386.deb
>      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error
> code (1)
> 
> So I used dpkg --force-overwrite to install such
> packages.  What do
> people normally do with such errors?  Is there a
> place to look up such
> things?

Looks like there is a bug report already.

#370353 - x11-common: installation breaks when trying
to overwrite /usr/X11R6/bin with a symlink - Debian
Bug report logs
	
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370353
	


Cheers

--arky