[Bug 827942] Re: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument

[Nathan Neal]

Hi,

I don't know if this is relevant or not, but in addition to the setup
I described in my previous email, I also am running VirtualBox with
Windows XP as the guest OS.  I do believe VirtualBox was running in
the background at the time of this error message.

2011/8/18 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>:
> What filesystem are you using? This error message means that a simple
> open fails:
>
>    fd= open(fnamenewvb.buf, (O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY), 0);
>    if (fd < 0)
>      ohshite(_("unable to create `%.255s' (while processing `%.255s')"),
>              fnamenewvb.buf, ti->name);
>
> And those arguments O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY are very common and should
> not result in the error you gave.
>
> Can you show us the output of "ls -al /etc/dpkg/" and "mount" ?
>
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> Title:
>  package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to
>  create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing
>  `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument
>
> Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  I don't know a great deal about linux/ubuntu.  I was trying to update
>  a library file libc6 to a newer version, and could not see a way to do
>  this using apt, so I went through some man pages, found dselect, tried
>  to use it, found it was not installed, and tried to install it using
>  apt-get....this is when I received this error.  I don't know if it's a
>  bug or not, I don't know if I can't use dselect when apt is already
>  installed due to some sort of conflict.
>
>  ProblemType: Package
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: dselect (not installed)
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
>  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
>  AptOrdering:
>   dselect: Install
>   dselect: Configure
>  Architecture: i386
>  Date: Wed Aug 17 07:00:16 2011
>  DpkgTerminalLog:
>   Unpacking dselect (from .../dselect_1.16.0~ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
>   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dselect_1.16.0~ubuntu7_i386.deb (--unpack):
>    unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument
>  ErrorMessage: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
>  SourcePackage: dpkg
>  Title: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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Title:
  package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to
  create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing
  `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I don't know a great deal about linux/ubuntu.  I was trying to update
  a library file libc6 to a newer version, and could not see a way to do
  this using apt, so I went through some man pages, found dselect, tried
  to use it, found it was not installed, and tried to install it using
  apt-get....this is when I received this error.  I don't know if it's a
  bug or not, I don't know if I can't use dselect when apt is already
  installed due to some sort of conflict.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: dselect (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  AptOrdering:
   dselect: Install
   dselect: Configure
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Aug 17 07:00:16 2011
  DpkgTerminalLog:
   Unpacking dselect (from .../dselect_1.16.0~ubuntu7_i386.deb) ...
   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dselect_1.16.0~ubuntu7_i386.deb (--unpack):
    unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument
  ErrorMessage: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  Title: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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