Re: install-info: failed to lock- Problem

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Marcus vA wrote:
> install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! file or directory not found

Apparently you lost your /usr/info/dir file. If /usr/info/dir.old
exists you can do "cp /usr/info/dir.old /usr/info/dir". If not, I would
"cp /usr/share/base-files/info.dir /usr/info/dir", but you might want to
reconfigure packages having info docs to populate the dir file again.
Use a backup if you have it.

Note to dpkg maintainers: Perhaps the wording is confusing.
What about this?:

install-info: failed to lock `dir' for editing

or maybe this?:

install-info: failed to lock `/usr/info/dir' for editing

(The meaning of this message is a FAQ in debian-user-spanish too.
Some people even think "dir" stands for "directory").


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