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Re: symlink errors



Tomas Berndtsson <tobe@lysator.liu.se> writes:

> I've noticed this lately, when installing library packages
> especially, I get this error message:
> 
>  error setting ownership of symlink `lib/libss.so.2': No such file or directory
> 
> or similar. The error is that the symlink is stored before the file
> it links to, in the .deb file, so that when unpacking, it tries to
> make the symlink to a non-existant file. It's easy to install it
> anyway, by first touch the library and reinstall, but it's
> irritating. Can it be controlled when the package is made, that they
> are in correct order?

This is a kernel problem and will go away if you downgrade to 2.0.33
or upgrade to a new 21.8x whenever Jes releases it.

-- 
James


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