On Mon, 21 May 2007, nick lidakis wrote:
> I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting
> dselect install. Dselect quits with this error:
>
> Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using
> .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement sed ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> unable to make backup link of
> `./usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo' before installing new
> version: Operation not permitted
[ . . . ]
> Also, the file sed.mo has a date of 1969. ls -alt sed.mo reveals:
>
> thinkpad:/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES# ls -alt sed.mo
> c---rwxrwx 5389 2484475149 353247318 247, 62 Dec 31 1969 sed.mo
[ . . . ]
> Any ideas? I am not even allowed to move or delete the file via the shell.
Smells like file system damage. Reboot (or switch) to single-user mode and
run fsck. This may be the least of your worries...
FWIW, running 'chmod 755 /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo' as root
should let you manipulate the file. If it doesn't, make sure that the file
system is mounted read-write ('mount -l' will tell you). Last thing to
check would be the immutable flag (man lsattr/chattr).
-- Brad
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