[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#249539: marked as done (/etc/modprobe.d/alsa is a floating symlink)

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Subject: lm-sensors: 2.8.6-11 version fails to install
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Package: lm-sensors
Version: 2.8.6-10
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Attempted to install version 2.8.6-11 of lm-sensors, but install fails
with the following:

Preparing to replace lm-sensors 2.8.6-10 (using
..../lm-sensors_2.8.6-11_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lm-sensors ...
cat: alsa: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
cat: alsa: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/lm-sensors_2.8.6-11_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
 cat: alsa: No such file or directory
 dpkg: error while cleaning up:
  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/lm-sensors_2.8.6-11_i386.deb

If its relevant, I'm using 2.6.5 debian kernel with udev.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages lm-sensors depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.25       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libsensors3                 2.8.6-11     Library to read temperature/voltag
ii  makedev                     2.3.1-69     Creates device files in /dev
ii  perl                        5.8.4-2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  ucf                         1.06         Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
  lm-sensors/negatives: 
* lm-sensors/thinkpad-confirmation: true

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:54:00 -0400
From: David B Harris <dbharris@eelf.ddts.net>
To: 249539-done@bugs.debian.org, 246349-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Closing old bug
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Hey there, this bug was closed some time ago (around May 26th), but
wasn't closed in the changelog. So closing it here.

(For context, /etc/{modutils,modprobe.d}/alsa was a dangling symlink,
and causing update-modules to bomb during lm-sensors installation)

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