I have a wierd error from when I tried to upgrade a system from stable/woody (a few sarge packages like snort) to SID.
I understand SID is a bit unstable (thus Still in Development)... Any ideas what could be causing /usr/bin/du to be undeletable? I can't write a C program to delete it, I can't delete it by hand, etc.. I can't even move it to a different file (which i normally can do if a process has a lock on a file handle). Any suggestions appriciated. PLEASE CC: me on all replies! Thanks, Roger ---------------------- # apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-3.2 dictionaries-common g++-3.2 gcc-3.2 gcc-3.2-base gettext libasn1-6-heimdal libcomerr1-kerberos4kth libdb4.1 libdns8 libgd2-noxpm libgd2-noxpm-dev libglib2.0-0 libidn9 libkrb-1-kerberos4kth libkrb5-17-heimdal libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpcap0.7 libperl5.8 libpng12-0 libpng3 libpq3 libroken16-kerberos4kth libsnmp5 libssl0.9.7 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-dev po-debconf python2.2 python2.2-optik The following packages have been kept back w3m 165 packages upgraded, 31 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 7 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/97.3MB of archives. After unpacking 76.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 27942 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace coreutils 4.5.2-1 (using .../coreutils_4.5.10-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement coreutils ... Replacing files in old package debianutils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_4.5.10-1_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to make backup link of `./usr/bin/du' 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/coreutils_4.5.10-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)