Bug#531611: gnome-session: postinst fails when calling update-alternatives

[Wolf Wiegand]

Hi,

Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mardi 02 juin 2009 à 20:25 +0200, Wolf Wiegand a écrit :
> > > after the upgrade from 2.22.3-3 to 2.26.1-6, the postinst fails with the
> > > following error:
> > > 
> > > Setting up gnome-session (2.26.1-6) ...
> > > Installing new version of config file /etc/gnome/defaults.list ...
> > > update-alternatives: error: alternative x-session-manager.1.gz can't be slave of
> > >  x-session-manager: it is a master alternative.
> > > dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure):
> > >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> 
> Can you provide us the content of
> /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz and the output of
> stat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz ?

$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz
manual
/usr/share/man/man1/x-session-manager.1.gz

/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-session.1x.gz
10

$ stat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz
  File: `/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-session-manager.1.gz'
  Size: 95              Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 301h/769d       Inode: 54676865    Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2006-10-29 12:48:41.023425250 +0100
Modify: 2006-10-29 12:48:41.023425250 +0100
Change: 2006-10-29 12:48:41.023425250 +0100


> Does the timestamps correlate with a particular package installation (see
> /var/log/dpkg.log*) ?

My oldest dpkg.log.* was created in 2008, so I cannot tell.


Cheers,

Wolf
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