On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:47:35PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Can you provide me /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/rename ? It looks like some > left over alternatives in that file dating back to the perl 5.005 > transition that was not properly cleaned...
[10/510...@nechayev[chroot sid-kernel]:~$ ls -al /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/rename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122 Jun 6 12:22 /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/rename [11/511...@nechayev[chroot sid-kernel]:~$ cat !$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/rename manual /usr/bin/rename rename.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/rename.1.gz /usr/bin/prename 60 /usr/share/man/man1/prename.1.gz [12/512...@nechayev[chroot sid-kernel]:~$ > I certainly upgraded perl to version 5.10.0-22 on my system without > encountering any error. There is likely a lack of checks in > update-alternatives but also something not 100% clean in the perl upgrade > history. The new code tries harder to avoid problems and your > installation is somehow broken (and it failed while trying to fix it). It should give a more helpful error message in that case. > And please show me the output of this command: > ls -al /etc/alternatives/rename /usr/bin/rename-5.005 /usr/bin/rename [12/512...@nechayev[chroot sid-kernel]:~$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/rename /usr/bin/rename-5.005 /usr/bin/rename ls: cannot access /usr/bin/rename-5.005: No such file or directory ls: cannot access /usr/bin/rename: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 14 2008 /etc/alternatives/rename -> /usr/bin/rename-5.005 [13/513...@nechayev[chroot sid-kernel]:~$ > In fact, looking at the code more closely, the problem is probably that > /etc/alternatives/rename points to an non-existing and unregistered > alternative... (i.e. it doesn't appear in > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/rename). Let's see if I'm right. Looks like you're right. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
