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Re: apt-get upgrade woes



On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 20:07:04 +0000, 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 directory.".

What does "ls -ld /usr/info/dir" say? 
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