Re: my sarge system won't update
On 09/12/2006 10:46 PM, mark foster wrote:
I'm attempting to update my mail server which runs debian sarge,
postfix, etc.
However this time it is not working. I did the usual `aptitude update;
aptitude upgrade`
I'm looking for some help out of this, I'm at a loss being a relative
newbie to debian and dpkg.
I should note the the 'getent' command seems to have disappeared and I
don't know why. dpkg -C does not show any problems. What should I do
to fix this?
...
Fetched 88.0MB in 4m18s (340kB/s)
Can't exec "locale": Input/output error at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 12.
[...]
On my Sarge system, 'getent' is in the libc6 package:
$ dlocate getent
libc6: /usr/share/man/man1/getent.1.gz
libc6: /usr/bin/getent
...
The C library is rather critical to the system, so you want to
investigate to see if it's installed properly.
If you must re-install it, you can get it from a Debian mirror
via web browser and probably install it using dpkg.
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