On 03/03/13 03:45 AM, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 3 March 2013 11:04, Daniel Dickinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 02/03/13 02:41 AM, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >>> On 2 March 2013 09:57, Daniel Dickinson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> This happens with any of the packages I have tried to reinstall. For >>>> example, if ccrypt is already installed, the emacs23 amd64 23.4+1-4 will >>>> fail to install. If you subsequently attempt a reinstall you will see >>>> "E: Internal error, No file name for emacs23:amd64". >>> >>> Is the issue with install, or reinstall? >> >> Reinstall (that is using L in aptitude, after the install fails). > > Right. So the situation, as I understand it, is this: > > Starting with emacs23 _not installed_, you install ccrypt. Then you > attempt to install emacs23 and it fails due to some error you have not > specified (but would be very helpful to know). At this point, you
/etc/emacs23 dir doesn't exist for some reason at that point > attempt to _reinstall_ emacs23, which fails with the internal error as > stated above. Right. > > Using reinstall — rather than install — on the second attempt suggests > that the package emacs23 is in a state similar to gcc-4.7-base in > #670920. That is, half-installed, half-configured, or similar. Yes. > I have retried this scenario on a local chroot and not encountered any > problems installing emacs23 after ccrypt. > Hmmmm.....could be be something to do with 9p filesystem in a VM? i.e. filesystem bug of some kind? Regards, Daniel -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
