Re: Dist-upgrade to Woody: Can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to do a disp-upgrade to Woody and during the configuration phase
> I get a lot of:
> dhelp_parser: Can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles
> 


This is a known bug and has been reported.


> I've checked the file seems to be there but with 0 bytes length
> I've tried to copy over the ones from my backup potato install
> which was about 10k, but I've got the same message again, and
> file size went back to 0.
> 
> titles is owned by root and has permissions of 644 (apparently)
> 
> Or does this matter at all?
> 
> Also the following packages just didn't want to configure properly
> tetex-base
> tetex-extra


As for those 2, perhaps you should run 

    apt-get install tetex-base tetex-extra

once more?
Could it be that you got it not to configure properly due to a previous 
package which was not installed cleanly? Can you post the entire 
session of apt-get install tetex-base tetex-extra to the list?


> jedtex
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> Many thanks in advance!
> regards,
> Balazs
> 
> 
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    Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>