Sorry about delay in reply. Daughter-in-law is now at Heathrow (hopefully -
train/bus due in 20 minutes ago) en route for Japan, so I have a bit more
time. This is rather lengthy again because I didn't know what I could safely
cull.
Incidentally, I have checked. Problems are still there.
TIA
Lisi
On Monday 05 November 2007 12:17, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:00:44AM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote:
[snip]
> > Tux:/home/lisi# aptitude install rsync
>
> [snip]
>
> > **Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y**
> > The following packages have been kept back:
> > acroread-debian-files realplayer
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > rsync
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> > iceweasel
> > 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 254kB will be freed.
> > **Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y**
> > Writing extended state information... Error!
> > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the acroread-debian-files package.
> > This migh
> > t mean you need to manually fix this package.
> > E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root?
>
> These look like the actual errors.
>
> - Is /var full?
43%
> - Are you running another instance of apt/dpkg/synaptic/apt-get?
> (Check with ps axf, and kill -9 if you see one)
No
> - What do the permissions look like on:
> - /var/lib/dpkg,
> - /var/lib/aptitude,
> - /var/lib/apt, and their respective contents?
Tux:/var/lib# ls -l
total 184
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:52 alsa
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:20 apt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-05 08:11 aptitude
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-18 14:57 bittorrent
drwxrwsr-x 3 root src 4096 2007-10-12 17:51 cvs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:33 dbus
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2007-10-12 23:45 defoma
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:18 dhcp3
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:50 dictionaries-common
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:47 dirmngr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-23 20:27 discover
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-11-02 16:27 dpkg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-06 08:37 exim4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:59 gcj-4.1
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:51 gconf
drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 2007-10-12 17:52 gdm
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:59 gnome
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:52 gstreamer
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-11-01 21:08 icedove
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:53 iceweasel
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:19 initramfs-tools
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-30 22:27 initscripts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-24 00:00 kdm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:39 logrotate
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-11-02 16:27 menu-xdg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-28 15:06 misc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-30 21:08 NetworkManager
drwxr-xr-x 5 statd root 4096 2007-10-12 17:34 nfs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:55 python-support
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-14 16:15 rpm
drwxr-xr-x 43 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:49 scrollkeeper
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:55 security
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:51 sgml-base
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-12-29 16:00 snmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-12-20 04:18 synaptic
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:47 tex-common
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:50 texmf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:50 ucf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-02-20 14:05 update-manager
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:59 update-notifier
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-06 08:37 urandom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:19 usbutils
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:18 vim
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:56 x11
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-06 08:37 xkb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:57 xml-core
Tux:/var/lib# cd dpkg
Tux:/var/lib/dpkg# ls -l
total 4764
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-20 23:10 alternatives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1107855 2007-11-02 16:27 available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1107855 2007-11-02 16:27 available-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 2007-10-12 16:18 cmethopt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2117 2007-10-12 16:59 diversions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2168 2007-10-12 16:59 diversions-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 241664 2007-11-02 16:27 info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2007-11-06 17:09 lock
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-10-12 16:17 methods
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-01 23:00 parts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77 2007-10-12 16:59 statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 2007-10-12 16:54 statoverride-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1176971 2007-11-02 16:27 status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1176971 2007-11-02 16:27 status-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-02 16:27 updates
Tux:/var/lib/dpkg# cd ..
Tux:/var/lib# cd aptitude
Tux:/var/lib/aptitude# ls -l
total 3320
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1692120 2007-11-05 08:11 pkgstates
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1692120 2007-11-05 08:10 pkgstates.old
Tux:/var/lib/aptitude# ..
bash: ..: command not found
Tux:/var/lib/aptitude# cd ..
Tux:/var/lib# cd apt
Tux:/var/lib/apt# ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249 2007-10-12 16:20 cdroms.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 249 2007-10-12 16:19 cdroms.list~
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-11-06 17:08 lists
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-12 17:39 periodic
Tux:/var/lib/apt#
