Bug#698203: Not a directory at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1177. (extlinux)

["Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>]

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I'll change it to treat ENOTDIR as non-fatal (same as ENOENT).

Thanks, that sounds appropriate to me.

> >     4875  open("/boot/extlinux/options.cfg", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)

FTR, this was happening because /boot/extlinux existed -- it was the
installer program that on a normal install would be /usr/sbin/extlinux.
The same error would arise if the sysadmin did something like

    echo "Don't forget this system isn't using grub!" > /boot/extlinux

I worked around it on my own system by simply "mv extlinux extlinux.exe".