procps update problem
I have searched the lists and found users with a similar problem, but
never really found a solution.
Here's my term output. would be grateful for any pointers to solve this
problem!
abdulatula:~# whoami
root
abdulatula:~# dselect
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/145kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 27040 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace procps 1:2.0.7-8 (using
.../procps_1%3a2.0.7-8.woody1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement procps ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/procps_1%3a2.0.7-8.woody1_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to make backup link of `./bin/ps' before installing new
version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Setting kernel variables.
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/procps_1%3a2.0.7-8.woody1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall
again
Press enter to continue.
installation script returned error exit status 100.
Press <enter> to continue.
abdulatula:~#
Peter Mears
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