On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:18:07PM +0100, Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.4.4-4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> After removing some old, unused packages, "aptitude upgrade" fails:
>
> # strace -o aptitude.strace aptitude dist-upgrade -y
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
> The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
> libc6-i686
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1815kB will be freed.
> Writing extended state information... Error!
> E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 package.
> This might mean you need to
> manually fix this package.
> E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
Could you send the output of
ps uax | grep apt
ps uax | grep dpkg
Thanks,
Daniel
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