Bug#312924: tetex-base tries to install /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci as an info file
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:05:51PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
>> tetex does not install that file (and it installs fine for me!):
>> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci is used internally by dpkg, it shouldnt exist
>> before installation starts. Do you have such a file (ls -l
>> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci)?
>> It looks like peple have reported this bug against different packages
>> in the past, and the cause was probably corrupt dpkg status files
>> (which would explain the other messages about the `series' and
>> `sharefont' packages) did you have disk/power failures recently?
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:53:25AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Not recently. Those have persisted for some time after such an incident
> in the past. They've been removed from the archives so I wasn't able to
> reinstall them etc.
> In any event I can't find any signs of corruption amongst dpkg status
> files. I suppose there aren't going to be easy-to-find answers for this.
Still no idea how to track it down, but I made the errors go away with
apt-get -t experimental -f install tetex-base. Might as well close this.
-- wli
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