Today the Update Manager informed me that 24 updates were available. I started the Update Manager and deselected two of the updates: totem- common, and gnome-icon-theme. These updates have been listed as available for several days now and they have always failed before. I ran the updates for the other 22 packages and this process seemed to complete normally.
The Update Manager now reported that two updates were available: totem- common, and gnome-icon-theme. I ran the Update Manager with these updates selected. They failed (again). The Update Manager displayed a screen which told me that an error had happened. The details on this screen were: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-icon-theme_2.24.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb: unable to make backup symlink for `./usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/spreadsheet.svg' E: /var/cache/apt/archives/totem-common_2.24.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb: unable to make backup symlink for `./usr/share/gnome/help/totem/oc/figures/totem_next_button.png' I allowed the processing to continue. The Update Manager displayed a screen telling me that the update was complete (which was not correct since the update had clearly failed). The detailed information presented in this screen was: (Reading database ... 246638 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1ubuntu2 (using .../gnome-icon-theme_2.24.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-icon-theme ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-icon-theme_2.24.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack): unable to make backup symlink for `./usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/spreadsheet.svg': No such file or directory Preparing to replace totem-common 2.22.1-0ubuntu2 (using .../totem-common_2.24.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement totem-common ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/totem-common_2.24.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack): unable to make backup symlink for `./usr/share/gnome/help/totem/oc/figures/totem_next_button.png': No such file or directory dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-icon-theme_2.24.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/totem-common_2.24.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: I allowed the update to continue. The Update Manager informed me that two updates are available: totem-common, and gnome-icon-theme. I stopped the process. Previously the system has attempted to report problems automatically when they happened during an update. This time no such attempt took place. -- package gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1ubuntu2 [modified: usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/stock/data/stock_format-scientific.png] failed to install/upgrade: unable to make backup symlink for `./usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/spreadsheet.svg': No such file or directory https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-icon-theme in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
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