Re: Bug#118279: Upgrade problem on Debian/MIPS (Sid)
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:14:09PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> This is not a dpkg bug, and I'm sure someone from debian-mips can shed
> some light into what is going on here.
Is this a R4600 Indy? There are caching problems with this special type
of CPU and nobody so far looked into fixing it. Using ash instead of
bash as /bin/sh seems to workaround the segfault though.
-- Guido
>
> 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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