Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.3 Severity: normal upgrading dpkg fails with "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 38: read: read error: 0: Is a directory"
# apt-get install dpkg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: [...deleted...] Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be upgraded: dpkg 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/2211kB of archives. After this operation, 16.4kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! dpkg Authentication warning overridden. (Reading database ... 449943 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.15.2 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.15.3_amd64.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 38: read: read error: 0: Is a directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.15.3_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.15.3_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 7.4-2 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.9-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
