Package: coreutils Version: 7.2-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
Touch does not update the timestamp in an existing file. This is particularly relevant to me as it appears to have caused dpkg to fail & not fully update leaving a none updatable system. I tested this both on the dpkg.log file & on another file. I also checked it worked on other hosts. The fail occured which dist-upgrading & will not now upgrade or fully run. Because I cannot write this report on the offending system I have edited the details below by hand. The info is taken from dpkg --status [package]. They may, however, be waiting to update. Studio 64 is a Debian package & coreutils is downloaded from the debian archives. Relevant deatil from dist upgrade:- Setting up dpkg (1.14.26) ... touch: setting times of `/var/log/dpkg.log' : no such process dpkg: error processing dpkg (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: dpkg E: Subprocess /usr/bindpkg returned error code (1) -- System Information: Debian Release: Sid (APT prefers oldstable) Don't know (APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')) Don't know Architecture: amd64 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 64studio (Debian) 2.6.21-1-multimedia-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: Package versions installed on problem machine libacl1 2.2.41-1 libc6 2.9-4 libselinux not found ************************************************************************ Not from the problem machine ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information *********************************************************************** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
