This is not a dpkg bug, and I'm sure someone from debian-mips can shed
some light into what is going on here.
Wichert.
Previously Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.9.17
>
> When trying to upgrade the packages on a SGI Indy running Debian/MIPS,
> I run into this problem:
>
> # apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 3 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Setting up emacs20 (20.7-11) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs20.postinst: line 53: 12469 Segmentation fault update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/$i $i /usr/bin/$i.emacs${MAJOR} 23
> dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> Setting up xterm (4.1.0-9) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/xterm.postinst: line 172: 12488 Segmentation fault update-alternatives --remove x-terminal-emulator /usr/bin/X11/xterm
> dpkg: error processing xterm (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> Setting up zsh (4.0.4-2) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/zsh.postinst: line 20: 12491 Segmentation fault update-alternatives --install /bin/zsh zsh /usr/bin/zsh 50
> dpkg: error processing zsh (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> emacs20
> xterm
> zsh
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> #
>
>
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