Bug#609030: net-tools fails to update

[Marcos Marado]

Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60-17
Severity: normal


Hi there, I'm trying to update this stable machine, which will update 
net-tools from 1.60-17 to the latest version in stable. the update fails:

~# aptitude install net-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  net-tools
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/265kB of archives. After unpacking 168kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 46341 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace net-tools 1.60-17 
(using .../net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement net-tools ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 unable to make backup link of `./bin/netstat' before installing new version: 
Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/net-tools_1.60-22_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

I tried to update to the extact next version, same thing happens:

~# wget 
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20071019T000000Z/pool/main/n/net-tools/net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb
--2011-01-05 14:31:19--  
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20071019T000000Z/pool/main/n/net-tools/net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb
Resolving snapshot.debian.org... 206.12.19.150, 193.62.202.28
Connecting to snapshot.debian.org|206.12.19.150|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 257600 (252K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb'

100%[=================================================================================================================>] 
257,600      203K/s   in
1.2s

2011-01-05 14:31:21 (203 KB/s) - `net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb' saved 
[257600/257600]

~# dpkg -i net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 46341 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace net-tools 1.60-17 (using 
net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement net-tools ...
dpkg: error processing net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb (--install):
 unable to make backup link of `./sbin/ifconfig' before installing new 
version: Operation not permitted
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 net-tools_1.60-17.1_i386.deb



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages net-tools depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.7-18lenny6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

net-tools recommends no packages.

net-tools suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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