Re: apt-get upgrade woes

["J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <dm@zensunni.demon.nl>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:00:16 +0000, 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)

Hmm... I suspect this is the problem. What does "ls -ld /usr/info/dir" say?

> drwxrwxrwx    3 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
	chmod 644 /usr/info/dir
	chown root:root /usr/info/dir
?

HTH,
Ray
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