[Breezy] X won't start, following today's update ?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:04:15AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:37:46PM +0100, john levin wrote:
> > Happened to me yesterday, but apt-get update/upgrade sorted everything
> > out this morning.
> 
> Hm. Not so for me, unfortunately:
> 
> Preparing to replace libx11-6 1:6.2.1+cvs.20050615-3 (using .../libx11-6_1%3a6.2.1+cvs.20050615-4_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libx11-6 ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_1%3a6.2.1+cvs.20050615-4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/X11/XErrorDB', which is also in package xlibs-data


sudo dpkg --force-overwrite -i  /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_1%3a6.2.1+cvs.20050615-4_i386.deb

fixed it for me.