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Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 21 17:07:12 UTC 2006


On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:56:03AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > It would be nice to know where this particular dangling symlink comes
> > from. I know that it was provided by some Java virtual machine package,
> > but there are several different packages that provide the rmic
> > alternative and I have no straightforward way of finding out which one
> > is buggy. Bas, do you have any information on which JVMs you've had
> > installed on your system, now or in the past?
> 
> Yeah, that's the problem I've always found with these dangling symlinks -
> you've already (perhaps a while ago, before noticing the mandb error)
> performed the upgrade and it's hard to guess what might have caused the
> change, when "dpkg -S" will, by definition, not show you anything :-(

/var/log/dpkg.log might come in handy here.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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