Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

["Manu Hack" <manuhack@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net> wrote:

On Fri May 23 2008 13:54:59 Manu Hack wrote:
> > That's not quite true.  Attributes such as immutable are
> > sometimes set by malware or disk errors.  OP please show
> > us the output of the following two commands:
> >
> > file /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo
>
> /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo: GNU message catalog
> (little endian), revision 0, 106 messages
>
> lsattr -d /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES
>
> suSDiadAc-ZXEj-tT- /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.m
>
> What's happening?

The file attributes are complete garbage.  Probably a minor
hardware glitch.  Remove all attributes and try the upgrade
again.  Here's the command, and yes the "=" is surrounded
by spaces.

"chattr = /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo"

It works!  Debian is the best!

Thanks a lot!

Manu