On Fri, 3 May 2019 18:27:30 +0200 Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote: > control: severity -1 important > > On Fri, 3 May 2019 16:12:40 +0200 Eduard Bloch <e...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Control: retitle 928390 unable to remove/upgrade where installed version is > > not operational > > Control: severity 928390 grave > > please don't play the severity game, thanks.
Ok. But still, a package with such unreliable purge function is IMHO just broken. > VBoxManage: error: The installer failed with exit code 1: > VBoxExtPackHelperApp: error: The owner is not root: '/usr/lib' > > did you read the error message? Yes. But I forgot it when the upgrade problem has driven me mad. > please tell me the output of > ls -l /usr/ I guess you mean ls -ld. And yes, that message was correct, it suddenly belonged to a local user (apparently a gift from an incorrect installation script, and I found more stuff in /usr with similar wrong permissions which is fixed now). Best regards, Eduard.
