The update service told me this morning that five updates were available. Two of these updates are suspect, so I ran the updated without selecting the suspect items. The update seemed to work correctly. I then tried one of the suspect updates, an update for "gnome-icon-theme". It failed, and gave me these error messages:
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' and later on Update is Complete (Reading database ... 243686 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 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-icon-theme_2.24.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: -- Installing Ubuntu 8.10 Caused Several Problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292478 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
