Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /lib/cpp has _always_ been a symlink to /usr/bin/cpp. It has been that > way for years. And it's only _now_ causing a problem? Have you never > installed cpp or gcc before? > > Furthermore, symlinks are definitely allowed across devices. It's hard > links that aren't. That can't be the problem.
Well, I don't understand what's going on, but here's what I think is the same problem with ispell, ibritish, and iamerican. At some point ibritish calls update-alternatives which tries to rename ispell-dictionary.hash.dpkg-tmp to ispell-dictionary.hash. It fails. If I cd to /etc/alternatives and try it manually as root: clare# mv ispell-dictionary.hash.dpkg-tmp ispell-dictionary.hash mv: cannot move `ispell-dictionary.hash.dpkg-tmp' across filesystems: Not a regular file clare# clare# ls -l i* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 21 12:20 ispell-dictionary.hash -> /usr/lib/ispell/american.hash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jun 21 14:01 ispell-dictionary.hash.dpkg-tmp -> /usr/lib/ispell/british.hash clare# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 15614 8938 5870 60% / /dev/hda4 256622 132644 110723 55% /usr It's probably something obvious, but I don't see it. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .