Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.6 While I was upgrading gcc, update-alternatives bombed out. /usr/share and /usr are different filesystems on my machine:
bottomless:~# df -h /usr /usr/share Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 6.9G 1.8G 4.8G 27% /usr /dev/sdb1 8.2G 4.0G 3.7G 52% /usr/share bottomless:~# dpkg --configure gcc Setting up gcc (2.95-3) ... Checking available versions of cc, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.) Renaming cc.1.gz slave link from /usr/man/man1/cc.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/cc.1.gz. update-alternatives: unable to rename /usr/man/man1/cc.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/cc.1.gz: Invalid cross-device link dpkg: error processing gcc (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gcc
