After some digging, I narrowed down the problem to install gnats-user for emacs24. Why its creating a gnats user I really don't know.
run the command, as root
# dpkg --configure -a -D221 &> Dpkg-error-log
NB. Initially it tried to create a gnats directory in , which I did on its behalf hoping this would solve the problem, but no joy. This is the second run
After some digging, I narrowed down the problem to install gnats-user for emacs24. Why its creating a gnats user I really don't know.
run the command, as root
# dpkg --configure -a -D221 &> Dpkg-error-log
NB. Initially it tried to create a gnats directory in , which I did on its behalf hoping this would solve the problem, but no joy. This is the second run