Subject: ifupdown: postinst fails if /dev/shm/network/ does not exist Package: ifupdown Version: 0.6.4-4.12 Severity: important
*** Please type your report below this line *** after the canocical apt-get update; apt-get upgrade ifupdown fails like this: Setting up ifupdown (0.6.4-4.12) ... ifupdown.postinst: Error: The canonical path of /etc/network/run could not be determined. Aborting. dpkg: error processing ifupdown (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: ifupdown After googling for a few minutes I found that $ mkdir /dev/shm/network fixes the problem: $ dpkg --configure --pending Setting up ifupdown (0.6.4-4.12) ... Cheers, Stefan -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.22-xfs Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii net-tools 1.60-10 The NET-3 networking toolkit -- debconf information: ifupdown/convert-interfaces: true ---Stefan Kluth, PhD----------Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter----------- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax: +49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS - ---D-80805 Munich, Germany----e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
