Here my original mail now. I hope it can give you some idea to where the problem is.
---- fwd ---- To: Debian Devel List <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>, Debian-Sparc List <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org> Subject: error upgrading libc6-dev on sparc From: Tomas Berndtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I got this on my sparc, but I'm not sure if it's a sparc only problem. When upgrading to recent unstable, using apt, it got to unpacking libc6-dev, where dpkg died with a Bus error. I'm not sure whether this is a bug in libc6-dev or in dpkg, so I don't know which package to bug report, which is why I'm sending it here. These are the last lines of the dpkg -D7777 output when installing libc6-dev_2.2-10. dpkg version is 1.8.1.2. D000010: tarobject ti->Name=`./usr/lib/libutil.so' Mode=120777 owner=0.0 Type=50 (l) ti->LinkName=`/lib/libutil.so.1' namenode=`/usr/lib/libutil.so' flags=2 inst ead=`<none>' D000100: setupvnamevbs main=`/usr/lib/libutil.so' tmp=`/usr/lib/libutil.so.dpkg- tmp' new=`/usr/lib/libutil.so.dpkg-new' D000100: tarobject already exists D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/usr/lib/libutil.so.dpkg-new' D000010: ensure_pathname_nonexisting `/usr/lib/libutil.so.dpkg-tmp' D000100: tarobject SymbolicLink creating D000100: tarobject done and installed D000002: maintainer_script_alternative nonexistent postrm `/var/lib/dpkg/info/li bc6-dev.postrm' D001000: isdirectoryinuse `/usr/include/asm-sparc/semaphore-helper.h' (except li bc6-dev) D001000: isdirectoryinuse packageslump libc6-dev ... D001000: isdirectoryinuse considering [0] libc6-dev ... D001000: isdirectoryinuse no D000010: process_archive: checking //usr/include/asm-sparc/semaphore-helper.h fo r same files on upgrade/downgrade This leaved libc6-dev in a not properly installed state, so I can't upgrade or install other things either. At least not with apt-get. Greetings, Tomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]