On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:33:18PM -0600, Nick Golder wrote: > 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.
That should've had /target at the start of the filename. Anyway, man-db 2.4.2-17 should work around this. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
