Bug#206936: upgrading openoffice.org : "ln: `ooo/dicts': File exists" (solved)
Hi,
i386 box, sid (daily upgrade)
# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
harden-localflaws mc
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Reading changelogs... Done
Setting up openoffice.org (1.0.99+1.1rc3-1) ...
Updating OpenOffice.org's dictionary list... done.
Creating symlink...
ln: `ooo/dicts': File exists
run-parts:
/usr/share/openoffice.org-debian-files/hooks/postinst.d/ooo_link exited
with return code 1
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
<cut>
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
which gives :
$ dpkg -l | grep -i openoffice | grep -v ii
iF openoffice.org 1.0.99+1.1rc3-1 high-quality
office productivity suite
iU openoffice.org-debian-files 1.0.99+1.1rc3-2 Debian
specific parts of OpenOffice.org
iU openoffice.org-help-fr 1.1+20030814-1
OpenOffice.org office suite help (French)
and
# ll -AR /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/:
total 4
590360 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 5 21:30 ooo
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo:
total 0
586418 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Aug 20 08:59
dicts -> /usr/share/myspell/dicts
(duno where this link come from).
# ll -A /usr/share/myspell/dicts/
total 3948
1095506 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Sep 5 21:30
dictionary.lst -> /etc/openoffice/dictionary.lst
1091910 44 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42600 Aug 13 12:32
hyph_de_DE.dic
1091936 84 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79272 Aug 13 12:32
hyph_en_GB.dic
1091958 36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36467 Aug 13 12:32
hyph_en_US.dic
1095504 3272 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3344716 Aug 24 02:10
th_en_US.dat
1095505 512 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 517545 Aug 24 02:10
th_en_US.idx
I've had this pb for the past 10 days and I just took the time to look
at it. From my reading of
/usr/share/openoffice.org-debian-files/hooks/postinst.d/ooo_link
the script is pretty weird :
In the "upgrade" case, all the files from
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo are moved to /usr/share/myspell/dicts
but /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo is not removed.
In the "configure" case :
You're trying to ln /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo which still exists.
There is also this weirdo of checking
"if [ ! -L /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo ]" before
"if [ ! -d /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict ]"
Maybe not enough sleep for so.
For the sack of curiosity, in
"ls -l1 ooo/* > $TMP 2> /dev/null || /bin/true
# if yes, move them...
if [ -s $TMP ]; then"
what is the reason of "|| /bin/true" ? I couldn't see any use of it
since the check is on $TMP size ?
Removing /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo and upgrading solved the pb.
@+,
Fab
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