Re: Debugging a strange dpkg error message

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> schrieb:

> The debugging options don't help much here

I just found that I can get some more debugging information, but I don't
get much wiser from that...

# dpkg --debug=3133 --install /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_2.96.5.20040711-4_all.deb         D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci'
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting running rm -rf
(Reading database ... 71393 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tetex-extra (from .../tetex-extra_2.96.5.20040711-4_all.deb) ...
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/lambda/config/language.dat' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/xypic.map' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/bsr.map' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/bsr-interpolated.map' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/psfonts.ams' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/psfonts.cm' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/psfonts.amz' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texmf/map/psfonts.cmz' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texdoctk/texdoctk.dat' no package, no hash
D000020: process_archive conffile `/etc/texdoctk/texdocrc' no package, no hash
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=not installed
D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst ( )
mkdir: cannot create directory `': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_2.96.5.20040711-4_all.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm ( )
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci'
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting running rm -rf
D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/var/lib/dpkg/reassemble.deb'
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_2.96.5.20040711-4_all.deb

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer