Package: udev Version: 0.090-2 Severity: normal
When trying to upgrade udev this morning: penpen:/home/jcdubacq# LANG=C apt-get install udev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: udev 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 75 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/262kB of archives. After unpacking 49.2kB disk space will be freed. Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 196593 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace udev 0.088-2 (using .../archives/udev_0.090-2_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 89: /lib/udev/write_net_rules: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.090-2_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.090-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Easy workaround: extract from the .deb /lib/udev/write_net_rules and dpkg -i the package. Apparently, preinst uses some file that is not yet unpacked (?!) Btw, reportbug claimed Version 0.090-2 was not in debian when submitting this bug. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125 2005-12-08 21:44 000_nolegacypty.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-04-11 09:42 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-10-17 10:25 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-03-11 09:52 050_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 2006-03-05 23:14 90-hal.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2004-12-05 09:02 cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-02-20 08:18 libnjb.rules -> ../libnjb.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 2005-09-01 17:26 mga_vid.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2004-12-02 09:41 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-03-29 08:48 z20_persistent-input.rules -> ../persistent-input.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-09-01 17:27 z20_persistent.rules -> ../persistent.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-04-22 07:52 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules -> ../persistent-net-generator.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-09-01 17:27 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-10-28 10:45 z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-09-01 20:22 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> ../alsa-utils.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-09-24 14:13 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2005-09-01 17:27 z70_hotplugd.rules -> ../hotplugd.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/fd0/dev /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hdc/dev /sys/block/hdc/hdc1/dev /sys/block/hdc/hdc2/dev /sys/block/hdc/hdc3/dev /sys/block/hdc/hdc4/dev /sys/block/hdd/dev /sys/block/hdd/hdd1/dev /sys/block/hde/dev /sys/block/hdf/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev /sys/block/ram12/dev /sys/block/ram13/dev /sys/block/ram14/dev /sys/block/ram15/dev /sys/block/ram1/dev /sys/block/ram2/dev /sys/block/ram3/dev /sys/block/ram4/dev /sys/block/ram5/dev /sys/block/ram6/dev /sys/block/ram7/dev /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/block/ram9/dev /sys/class/drm/card0/dev /sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev /sys/class/input/input1/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/mga_vid/mga_vid/dev /sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/printer/lp0/dev /sys/class/sound/adsp/dev /sys/class/sound/audio/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/dmfm/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp/dev /sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2p/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.2/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.3/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev -- Kernel configuration: -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (499, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-14 Scripts for initializing and shutt ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id0 0.090-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-4 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii makedev 2.3.1-81 creates device files in /dev ii sed 4.1.4-7 The GNU sed stream editor udev recommends no packages. -- debconf information: udev/devfs-warning: * udev/reboot-warning: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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