install-info: failed to lock- Problem
Hello,
I have got a big problem with apt and dpkg and install-info:
I made a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade some days before and
when apt started to install a new version of mtools, the following error
occured:
install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! file or directory not found
This error occured at least at near any package, so that I have a
whole bunch of broken packages today. Neither removing, nor
purging or reinstallation did work. All what happened was this mistake.
I tried to find out, what went worng and found only the following line
in any package, which causes the problems:
# Automatically added by dh_make
install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/[package.info
# End automatically added section
When I made a manual
install-info --debug --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/[package].info
the following output was generated:
dbg: infodir='/usr/info' filename='/usr/share/info/cvs.info.gz' maxwidth='79'
menuentry='' basename='cvs'
description='' remove=1
install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Is there someone, who can help to get this fixed?
In debian-user-german, they said, I should send a mail to this list, because they did not
know, how to help me.
I'm not reading this list, so please send any replies as Cc or To to <mva121@gmx.net>
Thanks in advance
Marcus
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