From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from www.linux.org.uk (parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk [195.92.249.252]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1418A482A for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:16:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from willy by www.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 15WrAA-0004Xp-00; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:16:10 +0100 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:16:10 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, baldric-exec@baldric.uwo.ca Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Users staying up to date. Message-ID: <20010815041610.M22144@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20010814154037.I25258@megatonmonkey.net> <20010815010034.K22144@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20010814215030.A26703@megatonmonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010814215030.A26703@megatonmonkey.net>; from carlos@baldric.uwo.ca on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:50:30PM -0400 Sender: List-ID: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:50:30PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell Jr. wrote: > In general, I don't want to submit a bugreport and have the > list say "That's already fixed in the latest updated package" :) That's fair enough. > I'm currently running apt-get on one of our nodes, and trying > to get it to an updated state. > > Hrm. apg-get segfaults randomly. Yes, it does. Until you've managed to get sully synced up to latest toolchain/libs/kernel at which point, it magically stops. > We're running a hand rolled: > Linux node10 2.4.0 #37 Tue Jul 17 22:33:26 EDT 2001 parisc unknown OK, you _definitely_ need to update this. You could pull from CVS or grab a snapshot tarball, see the webpages on how to do this. > (Reading database ... 17525 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace dpkg 1.8.3 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.16_hppa.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement dpkg ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.9.16_hppa.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite directory `/usr/share/locale/cs' in package texinfo with nondirectory > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Umm. That's rather interesting. an excerpt from dpkg --listfiles dpkg on paer.debian.org: /usr/share/locale /usr/share/locale/cs /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo I seem to remember someone saying this was a bug in an old version of dpkg. So one way around this may be to dpkg --remove texinfo, then install dpkg, then install texinfo again. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.