Marking confirmed based on stgraber's comment.
** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1498162
Title:
unable to make backup link of `./usr/sbin/uuidd' before installing new
version: Operation not permitted
Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Upon trying to do an apt-get upgrade I run into this error:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
uuid-runtime
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/12.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 27622 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../uuid-runtime_2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking uuid-runtime (2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.7) over (2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.6) ...
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/uuid-runtime_2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.7_amd64.deb (--unpack):
unable to make backup link of `./usr/sbin/uuidd' before installing new
version: Operation not permitted
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/uuid-runtime_2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.7_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt4
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.13
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 21 19:43:02 2015
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: util-linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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