On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 14:35, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Somehow /usr/bin/editor got deleted, and this is causing problems
> upgrading many of my editors.
>
> I first saw this with vim
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267095) a week ago,
> but it's since bit me with many others (I track testing).
>
> I suspect this has something to do with the fact that, in an effort to
> make emacs my default text editor, I pointed editor at
> /etc/alternatives/emacs (rather than a "real" binary):
> # update-alternatives --display editor
> editor - status is auto.
> link currently points to /etc/alternatives/emacs
> /usr/bin/emacs21 - priority 0
> /bin/ed - priority -100
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/ed.1.gz
> /usr/bin/nvi - priority 19
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/nvi.1.gz
> /usr/bin/vim - priority 120
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz
> /bin/nano - priority 40
> slave editor.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/nano.1.gz
> /etc/alternatives/emacs - priority 150
> slave editor.1.gz: /etc/alternatives/emacs.1.gz
> Current `best' version is /etc/alternatives/emacs.
>
> (That was from before /usr/bin/editor vanished, though I see about the
> same output now).
>
> I suspect the real problem is not vim, but either that I have used
> update-alternatives improperly, or that it has a bug.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this, or even on whether I should reassign
> the bug elsewhere (dpkg?)?
>
> Thanks
> Ross Boylan
>
> P.S. If you could cc this address that would be great, as I am
> subscribed through a different one.
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
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Which /usr/bin/editor?
~/linux-2.6.0/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx %% ls -l /usr/bin/editor /etc/alternatives/editor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 4 2003 /etc/alternatives/editor ->
/usr/bin/vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 2 2003 /usr/bin/editor ->
/etc/alternatives/editor
~/linux-2.6.0/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx %%
Which of those two files is missing? The second you can recreate easily:
ln -s /etc/alternatives/editor /usr/bin/editor
The first you could probably do:
update-alternatives --auto editor
Did you say you pointed /usr/bin/editor at /etc/alternatives/emacs?
Don't do that. Instead, restore the link to /etc/alternatives/editor,
and:
update-alternatives --config editor
Select emacs from the list.
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In response to his question, the /usr/bin/editor, not
/etc/alternatives/editor, was the one that got zapped. I followed his
advice to recreate it. Thank you.
I pointed /etc/alternatives/editor, not /usr/bin/editor (directly) to
/etc/alternatives/emacs. I did this with update-alternatives.
Those fixes exposed additional problems, as shown in this upgrade log
snippet:
Setting up vim (6.3-013+2) ...
mv: cannot stat `editor': No such file or directory
update-alternatives: unable to rename editor to /usr/bin/editor: Invalid
cross-device link
The problem here was that when I used update-alternatives I said
"editor" in some places I should have said "/usr/bin/editor". As a
result, dpkg couldn't find the file when the postint script said, for
example,
for i in vi view ex editor ; do
update-alternatives \
--install /usr/bin/$i $i /usr/bin/vim 120 \
--slave /usr/share/man/man1/$i.1.gz $i.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vim.1.gz
done
That, incidentally, show the correct use of paths for
update-alternatives.
I manually edited /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/editor to put paths where
they belonged, and everything seems back to normal
See bug 26705 for more on this issue.
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