Package: net-tools Version: 1.60-17 Severity: normal
Hi there, I'm trying to update this stable machine, which will update net-tools from 1.60-17 to the latest version in stable. the update fails: ~# aptitude install net-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be upgraded: net-tools 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/265kB of archives. After unpacking 168kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 46341 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace net-tools 1.60-17 (using .../net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement net-tools ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to make backup link of `./bin/netstat' before installing new version: Operation not permitted dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done I tried to update to the extact next version, same thing happens: ~# wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20071019T000000Z/pool/main/n/net-tools/net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb --2011-01-05 14:31:19-- http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20071019T000000Z/pool/main/n/net-tools/net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb Resolving snapshot.debian.org... 206.12.19.150, 193.62.202.28 Connecting to snapshot.debian.org|206.12.19.150|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 257600 (252K) [application/x-debian-package] Saving to: `net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb' 100%[=================================================================================================================>] 257,600 203K/s in 1.2s 2011-01-05 14:31:21 (203 KB/s) - `net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb' saved [257600/257600] ~# dpkg -i net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 46341 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace net-tools 1.60-17 (using net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement net-tools ... dpkg: error processing net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb (--install): unable to make backup link of `./sbin/ifconfig' before installing new version: Operation not permitted Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages net-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18lenny6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries net-tools recommends no packages. net-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Marcos Marado -- Marcos Marado -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org