On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:24:47PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 06:33:21PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Package: gcj > > Version: 1:3.3.2-0pre2 > > Severity: grave > > > > Not sure whether this is actually a gcj bug or a dpkg one, but it's > > ugly: > > > > Removing gcj-3.3 ... > > dpkg: error processing gcj-3.3 (--purge): > > cannot remove > > `/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable/usr/share/man/man1/m68k-linux-gcj-3.3.1.gzGSKYOUt.gzbian.gzlder.classssclassdapter.classslassssompositeContext.classn.org> > > Source: python-gtk2 > > Version: 2.0.0-3 > > Replaces: python2.2-gtk2 (<< 1.99.17-4), python2.3-gtk2': File name too long > > > > if you need any further information, please let me know. > > It sounds like some files in /var/lib/dpkg/info are corrupted. I'd look at > gcj-3.3.list first.
Hm. Well, that file still exists, as an empty file (zero-sized), even if dpkg -l gcj starts with "pn", which doesn't sound normal to me -- but I'm not familiar with dpkg's internals, so please correct me if that is indeed normal. Apart from that, I didn't find any further references to the above message in any of the files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*, /var/lib/dpkg/*; and the files owned by gcj seem to have been removed as well. I didn't re-run dpkg yet, because it's the dpkg inside of quickstep's chroot, and when I wanted to try (yesterday) it was building a package it hasn't finished yet; seen the m68k port has a huge backlog currently, I won't interfere there. If you think it could be useful to do special things with dpkg, let me know and I'll run them once the current build is complete, but otherwise, I think this bug can be either closed because of "not enough information", or left open, at your option. For reference, the above error happened in the db4.2_4.2.52-9 buidl for the m68k platform. If you want me to keep the build tree intact (it's still there), let me know; else, I'll remove it by tomorrow. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
