Re: post-installation script errors

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Peter Nome <peter@cogweb.net> schrieb:

> On a woody base install, I'm getting lots of post-installation script errors, like this:
>
> # dpkg -i sed_3.02-8_i386.deb
> (Reading database ... 6623 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace sed 3.02-8 (using sed_3.02-8_i386.deb) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/sed.prerm: line 9:   653 Segmentation fault      install-info --quiet --remove sed
[...]
>
> If I comment out the line starting "install-info" in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/sed.postinst I can complete the configuration with
> apt-get --reinstall install sed (or sometimes dpkg --configure
> sed). However, I get this on lots of packages. What's going on?

It seems your install-info is broken. Have you tried to reinstall it
(it's in the dpkg package)? 

> Strace below. 

That doesn't help much. Either you instruct strace to also look at
subprocesses, or you trace a manual call of install-info.


Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie