Re: apt-get upgrade woes

[P Kirk <patrick@enterprise-hr.com>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:29:57PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
>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?

[~]: ls -ld /usr/info/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov  9 10:23 /usr/info//
[~]: ls -la /usr/info/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov  9 10:23 ./
drwxrwxrwx   17 root     root         4096 Nov  6 15:33 ../
-rw-rw-rw-    2 root     root            0 Nov  9 09:33 dir
-rw-rw-rw-    2 root     root            0 Nov  9 09:33 dir.lock

/usr/info/dir was indeed a directory.  I had mkdir-ed info and
info/dir to try and make this thing work.  I've deleted it and now
touch-ed info/dir

Still doesn't work though.  New file access log attached...I
Control-C-ed at 6537 as it hangs there indefinitely.

Please let me know what you think.

Patrick