Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 15:45:48 +, P Kirk wrote: > Forgot the attachment. > 6544 open("/usr/sbin/install-info", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 4 > 6544 fstat64(0x4, 0x80f5c80) = 0 > 6544 fstat64(0x4, 0xbfffd2ec) = 0 > 6544 stat64(0x80fe5b0, 0x80f5ae0) = 0 > 6544 link("/usr/in

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-09 Thread P Kirk
Forgot the attachment. 6530 execve("/usr/bin/dpkg", ["dpkg", "-i", "util-linux_2.11l-3_i386.deb"], [/* 22 vars */]) = 0 6530 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 6530 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 4 6530 fstat64(0x4, 0xb044) = 0 6530

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-09 Thread P Kirk
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:29:57PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: >On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 20:07:04 +, P Kirk wrote: >> install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Operation not permitted > >Weird. link(2) lists only two possible causes for EPERM: >"The filesystem containing oldpath and ne

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 20:07:04 +, P Kirk wrote: > install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Operation not permitted Weird. link(2) lists only two possible causes for EPERM: "The filesystem containing oldpath and newpath does not support the creation of hard links." and "oldpath is a dire

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread P Kirk
I wonder if there's a way to specify an info directory or indeed no info directory using dpkg? something along the lines of ./configure infodir=/foo/bar when doing it from source?

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread P Kirk
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 08:26:06PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: >> drwxrwxrwx3 root root 4096 Nov 6 15:35 /usr/info/ > >OK, it may be a permission/ownership problem. Does the problem go away if >you try the dpkg line again after you've done > chmod 755 /usr/info >

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:00:16 +, P Kirk wrote: > 2192 open("/usr/sbin/install-info", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 4 > 2192 fstat64(0x4, 0x80f5c80) = 0 > 2192 fstat64(0x4, 0xbfffd36c) = 0 > 2192 link("/usr/info/dir", "/usr/info/dir.lock") = -1 EPERM (Operation not > permitted)

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-08 Thread P Kirk
> >Well, there is some information that may prove to be relevant, like >- The version of dpkg (the package which contains install-info) >- The output of "ls -ld /usr/info /usr/share/info" >- The log produced by > "strace -f -e file -o fileaccesslog dpkg -i util-linux_2.11l-3_i386.deb" > which pr

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:01:37 -0800, P Kirk wrote: > > Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11h-1 (using > > .../util-linux_2.11l-3_i386.deb) > > ... > > install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or > > directory > > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-06 Thread P Kirk
> something happened to my apt-get database in Woody and now when I try > to install new packages, run dselect or apt-get upgrade I see this; > help appreciated: > > (Reading database ... 20068 files and directories currently > installed.) > Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11h-1 (using > .../uti

apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-05 Thread P Kirk
Hi all, something happened to my apt-get database in Woody and now when I try to install new packages, run dselect or apt-get upgrade I see this; help appreciated: (Reading database ... 20068 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11h-1 (using .../util-linux