Hi, Magnus Danielson wrote: > > > I got the "Device or resource busy" message as a reply. It's because the > > > file > > > is in use by many tools: > > > > That shouldn't happen. "File in use" != "name in use". rm removes names, > > not files. [...] > > > And you using something weird as your root file system? That is > > something besides ext[23] or reiserfs? > > EXT3. No strange options or anything. I can't think of any specific things > other than over-generous selection of Debian/unstable packages.
I got the same message too on a previous upgrade (IIRC on 2.2.5-x). / was ext3. After resetting / to ext2 it worked. I did not know whz then, and I do not know if that is a bug in glibc, dpkg or kernel. Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
