On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Nathan Neal wrote: > Well, I had originally installed Ubuntu under ext3, but could not > write to it under Mac OS X, and did some searching online, and I seem > to remember reading that MOSX works better with ext2 formatting than > ext3, so I wiped my Linux partition, reformatted as ext2, and > reinstalled Ubuntu. MOSX does now allow read/write to the Linux > partition, whereas under ext3 it did not. Anyway, all that is just > some background as why I chose ext2.
It might be related under the hood. Did you write to your linux partition from MacOS some time before the failure? > I did as as you suggested, and tried installing dselect again, and > this time it worked. I'm copying/pasting the text of the terminal Weird. Did something change at the kernel level? Did you enable/disable some security stuff (SMACK) ? > of an easier way (maybe a cache of some sort), then you could instruct > me on how to access it. There's /var/log/dpkg.log but I saw your apt-history file and I don't think the supplementary packages can explain why it works now. It's more a kernel level issue or maybe a glibc issue. Somehow I would favor a bug in the kernel with ext2 possibly related to some unexpected stuff done by MacOS. But it's just a wild guess. It might also be some issue with SMACK or similar security modules but I doubt we would get EINVAL as error code if that was the reason. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827942 Title: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/827942/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
