Hi Greg It occurred when Ubuntu was doing it's first update and was interrupted or failed part way through the the download and installation of update packages. It wrote some garbage in the file and when it tried to recover and redo the update installation it choked on the characters written to the file on the failed attempt. When I cleared the file it did the right thing and has not been a problem since.
I could try to re-produce it on the next update if you wish and let you know or just let anyone know that the error means there is a partial line written or garbage characters in the ldconfig file. By the way...nice work on this distro...I am so not used to things working right out of the gate..I am a Slackware/Redhat user this is a pleasant experience so far. Similar to Redhat...some things are in different places and called different things. It will take a little time to get my self sorted out...great work! Best Regards, Dan Williamson Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 04:32 +0000, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Are you able to reproduce this bug anymore (creating a situation where > the bad characters are added to the ldconfig file)? > > If not, I will close it since we can't debug it anymore. > > Thanks! > > ** Changed in: ubuntu > Status: New => Incomplete > -- Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: too-long line or missing newline in `/var/lib/dpkg/triggers/ldconfig' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184449 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