Re: Can't write to /usr/share/doc

[Rob Rati <robhr@core.com>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> Subject:
>
> Re: Can't write to /usr/share/doc
> From:
>
> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
> Date:
>
> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 02:25:44 -0500
>
> To:
>
> Rob Rati <robhr@core.com>
> CC:
>
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
>
> Rob Rati wrote:
>
> > > error creating directory `./usr/share/doc/winesetuptk': No such file or 
> > > directory
>
> What's with the ./ ?
>
> What version of dpkg do you have? Debs do use ./ in the internal
> tarfiles now, possibly some old version of dpkg mishandles this?
>
> -- see shy jo
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I found the problem.  It appears that my /usr partition somehow got 
corrupted.  I was able to unmount it, fsck it, and then everything 
installed just fine.  Thanks for responding.

Rob

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