On 4 March 2013 06:08, Daniel Dickinson <csh...@neomailbox.net> wrote: > On 03/03/13 06:16 AM, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >> On 3 March 2013 17:56, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> On 2013-03-03 09:45 +0100, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >>>> Using reinstall — rather than install — on the second attempt suggests >>>> that the package emacs23 is in a state similar to gcc-4.7-base in >>>> #670920. That is, half-installed, half-configured, or similar.
>> Daniel, I have enough information for now to know what is going on. >> Thanks for the report. > > Oh, good. Please do tell. Is it a VM/9p filesystem thing, or something > else? AFAIK the only special thing about my setup at this point is the > VM/9p (well and a custom .bashrc in the primary user, but I've installed > both from normal XFCE session and from recovery mode root and had the > issue. I've had the problem with three VMs). I refer only to the report against aptitude of the internal error on the subsequent failure to install. As to why the original installation failed, I do not know, but that is not the subject of this report #701946. It is most likely that the internal error has nothing to do with filesystem in use, and everything to do with apt being perhaps confused about the package in the half-installed (or similar) state, as mentioned earlier. Details about the filesystem in use are more helpful to be made on the other report you filed, concerning the original failure to install emacs23. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
