On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:21:17AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Bram Senders wrote: > > There is also an x-terminal-emulator.1.gz file in > > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives, which is not a gzipped file at all, but just > > contains the contents: > > > > --- 8< --- > > manual > > > > > > > > --- >8 --- > > > > (including the three empty lines) Is this intended? > > The existence of this file is the real problem. update-alternatives only > create such a file for a master alternative and this one should not exist > at all. > > What is the timestamp of this file ? > > stat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz
File: `/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz' Size: 10 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 304h/772d Inode: 353989 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2009-05-28 11:23:07.000000000 +0200 Modify: 2005-02-25 13:11:37.000000000 +0100 Change: 2008-04-03 00:02:28.000000000 +0200 > Can you check if that time correspond to the upgrade of some terminal > related package in /var/log/dpkg.log (or aptitude.log if you use it). Unfortunately, my logs don't go back to april last year. ;-) > I don't know who/what called update-alternatives with > x-terminal-emulator.1.gz as master alternative but it's definitely not > a side-effect of proper usage of update-alternatives. Alas I don't know either; this box is maintained by multiple people, so anything might have happened to the terminal alternatives. [snip] > Or maybe simply "rm -f > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz" as it avoids the > temporary removal of /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz (and the > message "forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/bin/uxterm because > link group x-terminal-emulator is broken" later on...). That solved the problem for me. Well, not the problem of who broke the alternatives, but at least xterm is properly installed now again. :-) Thanks for the detailed help! Cheers, Bram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
