On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:15:53AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 15:48:27 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > > > Setting up xterm (243-1) ... > > > update-alternatives: error: alternative x-terminal-emulator.1.gz can't > > > be slave of x-terminal-emulator: it is a master alternative. > > > dpkg: error processing xterm (--configure): > > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit > > > status 2 > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > > xterm > > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 17:43:57 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > > > Setting up xterm (243-1) ... > > update-alternatives: error: alternative x-terminal-emulator.1.gz can't > > be slave of x-terminal-emulator: it is a master alternative. > > dpkg: error processing xterm (--configure): subprocess installed > > post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > > Errors were encountered while processing: xterm > > > What's the content of /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator? > Is there any mention of x-terminal-emulator.1.gz in another file in that > directory? What version of dpkg are you using? > > Cheers, > Julien
Ah sorry, it is NOW 1.15.2 and indeed this is the result after an apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up xterm (243-1) ... update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/bin/uxterm because link group x-terminal-emulator is broken. Processing triggers for menu ... -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
