severity 310528 important
tags 310528 unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:31:06AM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
> Package: cupsys
> Version: 1.1.23-10
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> When installing cupsys I got the following error message:

> /var/lib/dpkg/info/cupsys.postinst: line 30: .: /etc/default/cupsys: is a 
> directory
> dpkg: error processing cupsys (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  cupsys
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

> As I can't remeber creating this directory manually, I think
> it is a problem with the postinstall script.
> I was able to solve the problem by manually deleting the directory 
> before (which was empty).

The current cupsys package provides /etc/default/cupsys as a conffile, and
AFAIK this is the only way this file has ever been shipped; I can't see how
the cupsys package itself would have gotten this into the described broken
state.  Have you experienced any filesystem corruption on this system
recently?

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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