Re: [Reiner SCT] [solved] CTAPI: Could not open device at 0

Hi Paul,

Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Montag, den 28.09.2009, 18:10 +0200 schrieb Martin Preuss:
>> On Montag, 28. September 2009, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>> Am Freitag, den 04.09.2009, 00:07 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>>>> Am Donnerstag, den 03.09.2009, 23:36 +0200 schrieb Micha Lenk:
>>>>> Paul Menzel schrieb:
>>>>>> I did not find the rules file on my system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ LANG=C ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d/z80_cyberjack.rules
>>>>>> ls: cannot access /etc/udev/rules.d/z80_cyberjack.rules: No such file
>>>>>> or directory
>> [...]
>>
>> Oddly enough, I had the same problem: I verified that the rules file actually 
>> *is* inside the dpkg package, but still dpkg silently ignores it.
>>
>> I then went ahead and deinstalled the package with the purge command ("apt-get 
>> purge libctapi-cyberjack2") and reinstalled it. I don't know why but after 
>> that the rules file was installed...
> 
> Was that on a new system or have you had libctapi-cyberjack2 installed
> and removed before?
> 
>> Anyway, I don't know enough about the guts of dpkg to have an idea why dpkg 
>> would silenty ignore files inside a package but still installs them when 
>> purging the predecessor first...
> 
> Could it be that the conffile is executable?

No, I'd rather guess that it's a bug in dpkg regarding symlinks and
conffiles, which causes this behaviour. I haven't checked the situation
in detail yet, but it looks quite similar to what Marc Haber describes
in http://bugs.debian.org/421344

Regards
  Micha

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