Re: Dpkg gone haywire

1997-04-04 Thread Christian Hudon
On Apr 3, Kevin J Poorman wrote > Ok I think I have figured out what happened to my dpkg... I lost the file > dir or dir.lock that is the database in /usr/info. does anyone know how I > can force the creation/recreation of this file? Does any one know the > format of this file?? You can't lose 'di

Re: Dpkg gone haywire?

1997-04-03 Thread Christian Hudon
> > if (!$nowrite && !link("$infodir/dir","$infodir/dir.lock")) { > die "$name: failed to lock dir for editing! $!\n". > ($! =~ m/exists/i ? "try deleting $infodir/dir.lock ?\n" : ''); > } > [snip] > > Others on the list may have a better understanding of perl to see what > exca

Re: Dpkg gone haywire?

1997-04-03 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Setting up gimp-smotif (0.54.1-5) ... > install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing gimp-smotif (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ax25-u

Re: Dpkg gone haywire?

1997-04-02 Thread joost witteveen
> Setting up gimp-smotif (0.54.1-5) ... > install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing gimp-smotif (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ax25-util: