Hello I am new to this list and I am joining to hopefully recive help with a realy strange error that I am getting from dpkg. so without further wait here are the error messages
This first error is from trying to configure all package's that where pending. But as a side note gimp-smotif gave me the same error upon install. Setting up gimp-smotif (0.54.1-5) ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error processing gimp-smotif (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ax25-util: ax25-util depends on source; however: Package source is not installed. dpkg: error processing ax25-util (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: error processing bash (--configure): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting configuration. Errors were encountered while processing: gimp-smotif ax25-util bash This error was reported when I tried to remove a package. Removing doc-debian ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error processing doc-debian (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: doc-debian I am at wits end on this. I have tried everything I know to do includeing trying to reinstall dpkg but to no awail... my last and final thougt is that this is being caused by the /usr/info/ directory being locked for some reason and there for unaccessable by dpkg/install-info. Is there any way to "unlock" the directory or even to see if it realy is locked ... I have exausted every Idea that I know of and still I get this error. At this point I am tempted just to make a new filesystem and start over. Any thoughts and or sugestions would be greatly appreciated. -Kevin Poorman --------- End forwarded message ----------