Bug#688416: grub-common: error creating directory `./usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES': No such file or directory

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 05:40:25PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> upgrading grub-common from Sid to Experimental result in this error:
> 
> Preparing to replace grub-common 1.99-22.1 (using .../grub-common_2.00-5_amd64.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement grub-common ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-common_2.00-5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  error creating directory `./usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES': No such file or directory
> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> 
> Maybe the "." in front of "/usr/share/locale/" shouldn't be there.

No, that's normal.  This seems like either filesystem corruption, a
kernel bug, or a dpkg bug to me, not a bug in the package.

What do these say?

  ls -ld /usr/share/locale
  ls -ld /usr/share/locale/de_CH
  ls -ld /usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]