XFree86 update broken? Addendum
Mike Klinke
lsomike at futzin.com
Mon Feb 16 19:50:24 UTC 2004
Just for the archives and in case anyone else runs into this ....
Something seems to have choked during an update of XFree86 here and it
looks like something in the directory structure got hosed. If I do a
"ls" of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb I see:
12:58:22 # ls
compat geometry keycodes.dir README rules symbols.dir xkbcomp
compat.dir geometry.dir keymap README.config semantics types
compiled keycodes keymap.dir README.enhancing symbols types.dir
but if I do a "ll" I see:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 11:12 compat
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 689 Feb 12 12:27 compat.dir
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Feb 16 11:12 compiled ->
../../../../../var/lib/xkb
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1730 Oct 24 17:07 geometry.dir
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 keycodes
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2517 Oct 24 17:07 keycodes.dir
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 keymap
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8478 Oct 24 17:07 keymap.dir
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 983 Feb 12 12:27 README
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 7548 Feb 12 12:27 README.config
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 23367 Feb 12 12:27 README.enhancing
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 rules
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 symbols
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 38570 Oct 24 17:07 symbols.dir
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 14:29 types
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 464 Oct 24 17:07 types.dir
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 288132 Oct 24 17:19 xkbcomp
You'll note that there is no "geometry" directory in the "ll" whereas
there is in the "ls" ( 8-0 ) I don't know why this happens but this
melds well with the failure to install the XFree86 rpm which gives an
error message:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compat/xfree86;4030f9ef
D: fini 120777 1 ( 0, 0) 26
D: undo 040755 4 ( 0, 0) 0
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/geometry
GZDIO: 935 reads, 7659520 total bytes in 0.152 secs
error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: lstat failed - Input/output
error
I re-booted into single user mode and deleted the "gemoetry" directoy
and tried to re-install the XFree86 rpm but found that not only the
"geometry" directory but also the "semantics" and the "symbols"
directory had to be deleted in order for the installation of the RPM
to succeed. After succeeding, the RPM seems to have re-constructed
everything again.
All "seems" well now that I've rebooted back into GUI mode.
Regards, Mike Klinke
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