On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 02 juin 2009 à 20:25 +0200, Wolf Wiegand a écrit : > > after the upgrade from 2.22.3-3 to 2.26.1-6, the postinst fails with the > > following error: > > > > Setting up gnome-session (2.26.1-6) ... > > Installing new version of config file /etc/gnome/defaults.list ... > > update-alternatives: error: alternative x-session-manager.1.gz can't be > > slave of > > x-session-manager: it is a master alternative. > > dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Can you provide us the content of /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz and the output of stat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz ? Does the timestamps correlate with a particular package installation (see /var/log/dpkg.log*) ? > I guess this is an issue with another provider of this alternative > (maybe icewm-session). I’ve seen recent changes on the > update-alternatives side, so could a dpkg maintainer give an explanation > about what changed and how it could trigger this issue? The change is that update-alternatives forbids mistakes but as people (users and packagers) did mistakes in the past we have some cruft left-over that are in contradiction with the actual usage of alternatives. For users, the simple work-around is "rm /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz" but please provide the infos requested above before-hand. See 530633 for another case, I will centralize some cleanup in dpkg installation scripts for cases where we can't be certain that a particular package was at fault (or where too-many packages would have to implement the work-around). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
