Bug#228379: gcj: contains badly broken filename
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:24:47PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 06:33:21PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Package: gcj
> > Version: 1:3.3.2-0pre2
> > Severity: grave
> >
> > Not sure whether this is actually a gcj bug or a dpkg one, but it's
> > ugly:
> >
> > Removing gcj-3.3 ...
> > dpkg: error processing gcj-3.3 (--purge):
> > cannot remove `/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable/usr/share/man/man1/m68k-linux-gcj-3.3.1.gzGSKYOUt.gzbian.gzlder.classssclassdapter.classslassssompositeContext.classn.org>
> > Source: python-gtk2
> > Version: 2.0.0-3
> > Replaces: python2.2-gtk2 (<< 1.99.17-4), python2.3-gtk2': File name too long
> >
> > if you need any further information, please let me know.
>
> It sounds like some files in /var/lib/dpkg/info are corrupted. I'd look at
> gcj-3.3.list first.
Hm. Well, that file still exists, as an empty file (zero-sized), even if
dpkg -l gcj starts with "pn", which doesn't sound normal to me -- but
I'm not familiar with dpkg's internals, so please correct me if that is
indeed normal.
Apart from that, I didn't find any further references to the above
message in any of the files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*, /var/lib/dpkg/*;
and the files owned by gcj seem to have been removed as well.
I didn't re-run dpkg yet, because it's the dpkg inside of quickstep's
chroot, and when I wanted to try (yesterday) it was building a package
it hasn't finished yet; seen the m68k port has a huge backlog currently,
I won't interfere there. If you think it could be useful to do special
things with dpkg, let me know and I'll run them once the current build
is complete, but otherwise, I think this bug can be either closed
because of "not enough information", or left open, at your option.
For reference, the above error happened in the db4.2_4.2.52-9 buidl for
the m68k platform. If you want me to keep the build tree intact (it's
still there), let me know; else, I'll remove it by tomorrow.
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