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
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Update Manager is creating too many links
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299329
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