Re: Solved: dpkg-deb: failed to exec tar: Too many levels of symbolic links
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:01:39AM +0200, stavel@brailcom.org wrote:
> >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> Colin> Do you have star installed? The developer IRC channel
> Colin> currently thinks that this is due to
> Colin> http://bugs.debian.org/#190415.
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> I have deinstalled package star and dpkg works!
>
> This is a good experience.
> I have tried google, this didn't show anything.
>
> Next I will try to search even debian bugs to find problem :-)
>
> Thanks for problem solving lesson :-)
That wasn't a very good problem-solving lesson, actually, as it relied
on me having been told what the problem was. :)
The way it was discovered was somebody looking at 'ls -l /usr/bin/tar'
and finding that it was a symlink to star which was a symlink to itself.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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