Fails to install, /usr/share/info/sed.info.gz is empty
Bug #10342 reported by
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This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #10337: sed: Install-info error: unable to determine description for dir.
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Bug Description
Automatically imported from Debian bug report #281610 http://
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status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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Message-Id: <email address hidden> info/sed. info.gz is empty
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:43:53 -0500
From: "Adam R. Skutt" <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: Fails to install, /usr/share/
Package: sed
Version: 4.1.2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Upon attempting to install sed, apt-get barfs with this error:
# apt-get install sed
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
sed is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...
No `START- INFO-DIR- ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. info(/usr/ share/info/ sed.info) : unable to determine description
install-
for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
sed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Closer inspection of /usr/share/ info/sed. info.gz reveals it to be 29
bytes in size.
Decompressing it reveals it to be a null file.
Adam
-- System Information: 1-k7-smp ISO-8859- 1)
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-nitehalo-
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=
Versions of packages sed depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information