Hi Some packages failed to upgrade in my lenny to squeeze update because updare-alternatives encountered a file rather than a symbolic link. An example of this was fakeroot which produced the error:
"update-alternatives: error: readlink(/etc/alternatives/fakeroot) failed: Invalid argument" The file (/etc/alternatives/fakeroot) contains a shell script which has the comment: "# This script first starts faked (the daemon), and then it will run # the requested program with fake root privileges." After I moved this file out of the way I was able to upgrade the package fakeroot and new symbolic links were generated. There are over 100 of these files in the /etc/alternatives directory all dating from the same date in 2008 and presumably left over from a previous upgrade. Would it be safe to delete these files and run update-alternatives to generate new symbolic links. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jiljle$m57$1...@tuscan2.grantura.co.uk
