Bug#635683: dpkg --unpack: »/usr/bin/perl5.12.4.dpkg-new« cannot be opened: The program cannot be executed or altered/changed (busy)

[Dominic Hargreaves]

reassign 635683 dpkg
thanks

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:29:58AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> running `sudo aptitude safe-upgrade` today the first time it failed with
> the following error message.

> 	Vorbereitung zum Ersetzen von perl-base 5.12.4-1 (durch .../perl-base_5.12.4-2_i386.deb) ...
> 	Ersatz für perl-base wird entpackt ...
> 	dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.12.4-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
> 	 »/usr/bin/perl5.12.4.dpkg-new« kann nicht geöffnet werden: Das Programm kann nicht ausgeführt oder verändert werden (busy)

> I am sorry for the German language, but the second try with `LANG=C`
> everything worked.
> 
> The error message translates to something like the following.
> 
> 	 »/usr/bin/perl5.12.4.dpkg-new« cannot be opened: The program cannot be executed or altered/changed (busy)
> 
> Unfortunately I was not able to find the translation file.
> 
> During the update R was running so the system usage was 100 %. But this
> was also the case the second time. So I do not know what might have
> caused this.
> 
> If it is a problem with `dpkg` I am sorry to have this bug assigned to
> you incorrectly.

I can't see how this could be a problem with the perl-base package,
so I'm reassigning to dpkg for further triage.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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