Re: Bug #538822
If you dist-upgraded yesterday you might have got a big grub snafu hence no boot.
I had to use a USB stick install image in Rescue mode to dist-upgrade again today (inc. new versions of grub-common and grub-pc) and in same Rescue session rewrite GRUB on the MBR.
HTH
Norv
> do you has tried to reinstall bash? perhaps force reinstall?
On Sat, Jun
> 19, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Brian Morris <
> href="mailto:cymraegish@gmail.com";>cymraegish@gmail.com> wrote:
> I
> have got this thing bad, it blocked my upgrades completely in sid, I
>
> tried to remove dash and i got bash removed instead, i got into a
> chroot
> via rescue mode with the installer and with placing emergency
> copies of
> the files from the bash deb onto my system. however I am
> stumped what to
> do to work around. my system will still not boot now
> the normal
> way.
>
> here's the error:
>
>
> Setting up dash
> (0.5.5.1-6) ...
> dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
> when removing
> `diversion of /bin/sh by dash'
> found `diversion of /bin/sh to
> /bin/sh.distrib by bash'
> dpkg: error processing dash
> (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned
> error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>
> dash
>
>
> I tried using dpkg-divert removal for the "bad"
> diversion as shown in
> the manpage for it but that didn't
> work.
>
> Is there anything I can do other than a complete reinstall
> ?
>
> My system is a macbook late'06.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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