[Breezy] xbase-clients install problem

[Tim Leslie]

I did an apt-get dist-upgrade of my breezy system yesterday and got
the following error:

Setting up xbase-clients (6.8.2-21) ...
xbase-clients postinst warning: /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp symbolic link
points to wrong location /usr/bin/xkbcomp
Analyzing /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp:
drwxr-xr-x  103 root root 8192 2005-06-03 10:32 /etc
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 2005-06-03 10:32 /etc/X11
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-06-03 10:32 /etc/X11/xkb
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 16 2005-06-03 10:32 /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp ->
/usr/bin/xkbcomp
Analyzing /usr/bin/xkbcomp:
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 2005-05-20 12:38 /usr
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 28672 2005-06-03 10:32 /usr/bin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 173752 2005-06-01 19:07 /usr/bin/xkbcomp
Searching for overlapping packages...
dpkg: error processing xbase-clients (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

followed by a long list of packages with subsequent dependany problems.

Has anyone else seen this problem? where should my
/etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp be pointing? I googled around but couldn't find
anything ...

<...>

OK, I just fixed the problem but since I've written this much already
I might as well post a solution for anyone else who bumps into it.

% sudo cp /usr/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/bin
% sudo rm /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
% sudo ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp

Hope this is of some use to someone else.

Cheers,

Tim