Re: install-info: failed to lock- Problem

[Marcus vA <mva121@gmx.net>]

On Mon, 27 May 2002 22:18:49 +0200 (CEST)
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:

> 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").
> 

Thanks for your help, that was the problem, this file did not exist anymore
in /usr/info.

Thanks and regards
Marcus


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