Re: lilo-rotate.conf: No such file or directory
Have you tried to touch it?
On 27 Feb 2001, Forrest English wrote:
>well, when i apt-get upgrade to unstable. everything went fine (i'm
>shocked actually), except for lilo...
>
>thneed:/home/forrest# apt-get install lilo
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 201 not upgraded.
>3 packages not fully installed or removed.
>Need to get 143kB of archives. After unpacking 82.9kB will be used.
>Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main lilo 1:21.7-1 [143kB]
>Fetched 143kB in 7s (18.7kB/s)
>(Reading database ... 29011 files and directories currently installed.)
>Preparing to replace lilo 1:21.4.3-2 (using .../lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb)
>..
>already preserved: boot.b
>already preserved: chain.b
>already preserved: os2_d.b
>
>Rotating files /boot/*.preserve to avoid breakage on upgrade
>error: cannot stat /etc/lilo-rotate.conf: No such file or directory
>dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb
>(--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>thneed:/home/forrest#
>
>this is me re-running it after the update. anyone got an bright idea's?
>what exactly is lilo-rotate.conf, and what the heck is it needed for?
>
>
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