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and subject line Re: net-tools fails to update
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60-17
Severity: normal
Hi there, I'm trying to update this stable machine, which will update
net-tools from 1.60-17 to the latest version in stable. the update fails:
~# aptitude install net-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
net-tools
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/265kB of archives. After unpacking 168kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 46341 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace net-tools 1.60-17
(using .../net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement net-tools ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb
(--unpack):
unable to make backup link of `./bin/netstat' 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/net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
I tried to update to the extact next version, same thing happens:
~# wget
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20071019T000000Z/pool/main/n/net-tools/net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb
--2011-01-05 14:31:19--
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20071019T000000Z/pool/main/n/net-tools/net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb
Resolving snapshot.debian.org... 206.12.19.150, 193.62.202.28
Connecting to snapshot.debian.org|206.12.19.150|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 257600 (252K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb'
100%[=================================================================================================================>]
257,600 203K/s in
1.2s
2011-01-05 14:31:21 (203 KB/s) - `net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb' saved
[257600/257600]
~# dpkg -i net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 46341 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace net-tools 1.60-17 (using
net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement net-tools ...
dpkg: error processing net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb (--install):
unable to make backup link of `./sbin/ifconfig' before installing new
version: Operation not permitted
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages net-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
net-tools recommends no packages.
net-tools suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Marcos Marado
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Marcos Marado
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Please ignore this bug report, my bad. The installation was failing
because it tries to touch the ifconfig binary, which had erroneous
attrs.
Sorry for the noise,
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Marcos Marado
--- End Message ---
