Hi Brandon,
Brandon wrote:
> Unpacking replacement gecko-mediaplayer ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/gecko-mediaplayer_0.9.9.2-1_i386.deb (--install):
> unable to open '/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so.dpkg-new': No
> such file or directory
That helped. My next questions are[1]:
$ ls -ld /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Thanks, and sorry for the earlier nonsense.
Jonathan
[1] IT = "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so" for brevity.
| lstat64(IT, {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=42, ...}) = 0
[...]
| readlink(IT, "../../mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so", 86) = 42
| symlink("../../mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so", IT ".dpkg-tmp") = 0
gecko-mediaplayer.so is a symlink to itself. Odd, but dpkg should be
able to replace a symlink with a file without trouble.
| D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`.IT' Mode=644 owner=0.0 Type=48(-)
ti->LinkName=`' namenode=`IT' flags=2 instead=`<none>'
| D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`IT' tmp=`IT.dpkg-tmp' new=`IT.dpkg-new'
| D000100: tarobject nonexistent
Nonexistent? But the lstat succeeded! Hmm, maybe the file was
removed between dpkg runs. Perhaps two supposedly different files are
the same. Indeed, from the strace, /usr/lib/firefox/plugins is a
symlink.
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