Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-icon-theme
Source package: gnome-icon-theme
Ubuntu release: 8.10 (but a damaged one with the wrong kernel)
Package version: 2.22.0-1ubuntu2 (I guess)
I expected this package to install without any problems.
Instead, it failed to install, and left
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19553085/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19553086/DpkgTerminalLog.txt
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package gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1ubuntu2 [modified:
Today the Update Manager informed me that 24 updates were available. I
started the Update Manager and deselected two of the updates: totem-
common, and gnome-icon-theme. These updates have been listed as
available for several days now and they have always failed before. I
ran the updates for
Once again the Update Manager told me there were more updates
available today. The list included the totem-common package and the
gnome-icon-theme package. I deselected these packages and ran the
updates for the other packages listed. Those updates appeared to work
correctly - there does not
Somehow the files
/usr/share/gnome/help/totem/oc/figures/totem_next_button.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/spreadsheet.svg
had both been turned into directory links, pointing at directories with
the same name. The directory pointed at seemed to be inside the one
doing the
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19393602/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19393603/DpkgTerminalLog.txt
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package totem-common 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: unable to make
backup
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: totem
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-icon-theme_2.24.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb: unable to
make backup symlink for
`./usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/spreadsheet.svg'
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/totem-common_2.24.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb: unable to make
The Update Manager told me there were 14 updates available. The list
included these problematic updates for totem-common and gnome-icon-
theme. So I tried to get all the updates. The problematic ones failed.
I think one of the other updates should have resulted in kernel 2.6.27
being placed on
The Update Manager told me there were more updates available today.
It included totem-common and gnome-icon-theme in the list. I unmarked
these items, and the update appeared to complete as it should. I guess
I will keep unmarking these packages until I know that they are fixed.
I am also still
