nick lidakis wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting > dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: > > Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using > .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement sed ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb > (--unpack): > unable to make backup link of > `./usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/sed.mo' before installing new > version: Operation not permitted > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_4.1.5-2_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. > > > I did not have this problem with my home box; Debian Sid as well. > > Also, the file sed.mo has a date of 1969. ls -alt sed.mo reveals: > > thinkpad:/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES# ls -alt sed.mo > c---rwxrwx 5389 2484475149 353247318 247, 62 Dec 31 1969 sed.mo > > Googling for help, does not. > > Any ideas? I am not even allowed to move or delete the file via the shell. You have a corrupted filesystem. Suggest going to single user mode and fscking. -- see shy jo
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