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  • Bug#951200: base-files: unable to upgrade, conffile error

    From Santiago Vila@1:229/2 to All on Mon Jul 10 13:50:01 2023
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: [email protected]

    reassign 951200 dpkg
    thanks

    Hello Guillem et al.

    I'm reassigning this bug to dpkg because it is a lot more likely
    to be a bug in dpkg than a bug in base-files.

    Thanks.

    El 12/2/20 a las 12:31, Luca Koroll escribió:
    Package: base-files
    Version: 9.9+deb9u11
    Severity: important

    Dear Maintainer,

    after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
    There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.

    apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.

    The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
    There is no further error code or information.

    Thanks for helping.
    [...]

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  • From Guillem Jover@1:229/2 to Luca Koroll on Fri Jul 14 00:40:01 2023
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: [email protected]

    Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible

    Hi!

    On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 11:31:35 +0000, Luca Koroll wrote:
    Package: base-files
    Version: 9.9+deb9u11
    Severity: important

    after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with
    the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that
    I am unable to install any new packages.
    There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created
    when installing base-files.

    The error line states
    "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message

    Hmm, weird I cannot see an error message in the dpkg history that
    matches this message. Can you paste the exact message, even if it is
    localized.

    The only error messages that are close to that one are either:

    "unable to install (supposed) new info file '%.250s'"
    "unable to install new info file '%.250s' as '%.250s'"

    both are related to a failed rename of the new info file, but that
    would not explain either the error message (from errno) which I cannot
    find either in glibc.

    -- Configuration Files:
    /etc/issue changed: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Welcome to the Proxmox Virtual Environment. Please use your web browser to· configure this server - connect to:
    https://192.168.178.51:8006/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    I assume this is from the system where the problem was found? Perhaps
    there's an issue with Proxmox?

    I've marked this moreinfo and unreproducible, because the error
    message does not make sense to me given the code history, so if I
    don't hear anything in a while, I guess I'll just have to close this
    as a non-actionable report.

    Thanks,
    Guillem

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