Ah, I think the "hardware error" is a false positive here. dpkg needs to
check existing symlinks on unpack in order to actually respect them - -
i. .e the admin might have moved a directory to a different place and
put a symlink instead, and dpkg respects/maintains that. Thus a package
can never replace a symlink with a directory (i. . e. that needs an
explicit symlink removal in its preinst).
I'm not sure why it does the size check, or whether that's coming from
some lower level.
** Also affects: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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package ubuntu-docs 12.04.6 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link
'/usr/share/help/ja/ubuntu-help/music-player-notrecognized.page' size
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