On 2004-06-11 20:17 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:10:23AM -0600, Nick Golder wrote: > > I am using Test Candidate 1 for PowerPC and am installing on a Power Mac > > G4 350MHz. It errors out with the following: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > man-db > > umount: /target/dec/pts: No such file or directory > > umount: /target/dev/shm: No such file or directory > > umount: /target/proc/bus/usb: Invalid argument > > The last three are not errors, but the first is. > > I wish I knew why man-db is failing; I maintain the thing and I don't > understand why. > > Can you please follow the directions I gave in > http://bugs.debian.org/252425? Use nano as the editor, and note that you > must make the change between the time when man-db is extracted and when > it's configured (watch tty3 for the dpkg output so that you know when to > do this). >
I haven't had any luck with the directions. I never see /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst. I even wrote a script to check if the file exists and when it does, to some random but obvious stuff as an indicator. When dpkg --configure man-db fails, should I expect to see remnants of man-db's package or does it still cleanup correctly upon failure? -- -Nick Golder
