Re: Bug#580152: dpkg: trigger - W: Unable to read /etc/apt/preferences.d/ - FileExists (2: No such file or directory)

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:23:06AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 03 May 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > >        Processing triggers for menu ...
> > >        W: Unable to read /etc/apt/preferences.d/ - FileExists (2: No such file or directory)
> > > 
> > > Could this be caused by the fact that here the /etc/apt is a symlink and
> > > points to another location?
> > 
> > To my untrained eye, this looks like a message from APT.  Any insights?
> 
> But it might an apt tool called from the menu trigger processing code.

I checked all the menu-methods in Debian and none of them are calling
an apt tool, but you can try to run update-menus as root to see if that 
displays this warning.

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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