Hi there! Some notes before starting:
1) IMHO this bug is Severity: important, it leaves GNOME in an not usable state (see attached log) 2) I found this bug around one and a half week ago, but I performed more tests before replying (yes, I'm quite maniac with bugs...) I reproduced the error on three different installations: two plain etch on powerpc (where "plain" means "Dekstop + Standard tasks, no more") and another etch on i386 which I installed on May and then left there, without never upgrading. One of the two powerpc installation is still in the error state, i.e. `apt-get dist-upgrade` produces an error. I can put it online and accessible via SSH only if you need it, it's a playing machine (the same used for bug #501367 [1]), thus you can do whatever you want. IIRC [2] I still have the whole etch /etc folder, in case you want to analyze it. I'm now installing etch on a QEMU image to check *again* if I can reproduce this bug: the advantage of QEMU is that you've the -snapshot option, thus you can test it whatever times you need. I'll report back as soon as the installation has finished. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/501367 [2] it was last week, then I worked on other stuff
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Description: etch dist-upgrade: but in docbook-xml
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