Bug#407239: Can't upgrade, reinstall or remove mozilla-browser because or missing/broken script(s)

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:55:48PM -0800, Dominique Brazziel <dbrazziel at snet.net> wrote:
> update-alternatives: unable to remove
> /usr/bin/mozilla: Inappropriate ioctl for device

It sounds like the update-alternatives is not the problem, but rather
something on your system...

You may want to try to
run strace -f update-alternatives --remove mozilla /usr/bin/mozilla-suite
to find what is provoking this inappropriate ioctl.

Mike