Comment 6 for bug 10394

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:05:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Phillip Pi <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: sed: Upgrade fails (mine too)

Package: sed
Version: 4.1.2-2

It seems like I am also affected by this serious bug as noted in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281740 as well! Is there
a fix/workaround? Can I downgrade it? I hope I am following-up correctly
since this is my first time I ever used Debian's bug Web site and I am
still a Debian newbie.

Fetched 246kB in 5s (48.1kB/s)
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description
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)

# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description
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

# apt-get -t stable --reinstall install sed
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 10 not
upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description
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)

# ls -all /bin/sed
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41048 2004-11-16 08:29 /bin/sed

uname: 2.6.8-1-k7 #1 Thu Nov 11 12:47:56 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Thank you in advance. :)
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