Re: install-info: failed to lock- Problem
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 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").
This is already fixed in cvs. Plus, if /usr/share/info/dir doesn't exist, the
one from /var/backups is copied.
install-info now copies the old file to there, in addition to having dir.old
lie around.
Of course, the one in head is broken atm, due to a bad merge from 1.9. I've
got the fix, but haven't checked it in yet.
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