My "Update Manager" always states that two updates are available: - totem-common - gnome-icon-theme
However, I have tried to run these updates several times now, and they always fail, so I just ignore the "Update Manager" notices about them. Today, my "Update Manager" told me that twenty-nine updates were available. The list included "totem-common" and "gnome-icon-theme". So I deactived these two items, and ran the other updates. I hope this is reasonable - I dont know if there are any dependencies between these updates. The update appeared to run correctly for the other twenty-seven items. I then tried to run the updates for totem-common and gnome-icon-theme. This failed. One of the error messages produced was: 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' The Update Manager reported that the update was complete, but that errors had occurred. The Update Manager reported the following: (Reading database ... 243689 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: The error report left behind by this failure asked me to report the problem to Ubuntu, which I did. This created bug report 296570. I hope that new bug report is helpful. -- 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
