on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Juan Pablo Valenzuela (jpvalenz@puc.cl) wrote: > Hello: > my pc frezze in a middle of a dist-upgrade so i must to restart. Now the > apt-get doesn't work anymore... this is the message: > > # apt-get install diff > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be upgraded > diff > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 136 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/243kB of archives. > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. > (Reading database ... 106117 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace diff 2.8.1-4 (using > .../archives/diff_2.8.1-5_i386.deb) ... > install-info(/usr/share/info/diff.info): failed to lock dir for editing! > File exists > try deleting /usr/share/info/dir.lock ? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well, did you? > This shouldn't happen at /usr/share/perl/5.8.1/Text/Wrap.pm line 64. > dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 9 > dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... > install-info(/usr/share/info/diff.info): failed to lock dir for editing! > File exists > try deleting /usr/share/info/dir.lock ? > This shouldn't happen at /usr/share/perl/5.8.1/Text/Wrap.pm line 64. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/diff_2.8.1-5_i386.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 9 > install-info(/usr/share/info/diff.info): failed to lock dir for editing! > File exists > try deleting /usr/share/info/dir.lock ? > This shouldn't happen at /usr/share/perl/5.8.1/Text/Wrap.pm line 64. > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/diff_2.8.1-5_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I tried to delete dir.lock, but when I re-run apt-get the same error > apear.... > > Anybody know what can I do? > Pablo > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The revolution will not be televised. You can apt-get it from the usual mirrors, however. http://www.debian.org/
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