Public bug reported: Update manager always indicates to me that updates are pending for
totem-common gnome-icon-terminal If I try to install these updates they fail, and I think each failure creates a symbolic link to a directory that is not needed. These incorrect links will then cause further attempts to install these updates to fail. I will never be able to install these updates until I can get rid of all these incorrect links and get back to a starting point that the update manager expects. When I tried to run these updates today I got this message: 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' It looks like the update manager is expecting the "spreadsheet.svg" and "totem_next_button.png" to be regular graphical image files. Instead, these files are now symbolic links to another directory. This is wrong. I tried to find out what these bogus directories contain by using "ls". The results are shown here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg ls: cannot access /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/mimetypes/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg/spreadsheet.svg: Too many levels of symbolic links [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/share/gnome/help/totem/oc/figures/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png ls: cannot access /usr/share/gnome/help/totem/oc/figures/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png/totem_next_button.png: Too many levels of symbolic links [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ When the update manager completed it displayed the following error message: (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: QUESTION: How do I get back to an expected starting state that the update manager can deal with? ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Update Manager is creating too many links https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs