I'm running sarge, and just finished running "sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade".
All usually goes fine, except today. I'm now getting this error message; sudo aptitude upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages have been kept back: gaim sylpheed-claws The following packages will be upgraded: console-data cxref kernel-image-2.6.9-1-k7 libexif10 libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libqt3c102-mt libreadline5 libselinux1 memtest86 python-gnome2 python2.3-gnome2 qt3-designer qt3-dev-tools qt3-qtconfig valgrind vim vim-common 19 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/32.3MB of archives. After unpacking 979kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ... No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up dpkg: error processing sed (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: sed localepurge: checking system for new locale ... localepurge: processing locale files ... localepurge: processing man pages ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ... No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up dpkg: error processing sed (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: sed Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Any idea how to correct this? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759
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