You might be correct in looking at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430958 except that:
- I've not had any system crashes which might cause this - the version of dpkg I have is 1.15.8.4ubuntu1 (i386) and in the bug list you pointed out the lists a fix in 1.15.6. Do you think it's a goo idea to go back in revisions of such a major part of the system? - no disk full problems. bob$ df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 471793992 91693244 356135004 21% / - I've got a number of empty list files in var/lib/dpkg/info/. I think this is getting scary: find . -empty | wc 110 110 2437 This is out of 2400+ packages installed. And the disks on the system: bob$ cat /etc/mtab /dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0 none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0 none /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/sdb /media/Mirror ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0 0 0 rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0 nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/8dca643b-5736-4dab-a93e-e9a448966735 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks 0 0 gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/bob/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=bob 0 0 Fortunately, emacs is working just fine :) Oh, and early on in this process I did delete/remove a2ps and auctex and everything else i could find related to emacs. In fact I manually deleted all the emacs in /usr/share, /usr/bin, and /etc. No joy. I'll continue to debug from my end. I'm sure I'm not the only one with the problem and would really like to get it figured out! Best. -- Can't install emacs23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/673350 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs