Bug#503712: etch->lenny upgrade left the system in broken state

[Giovanni Rapagnani <rapagnani@gmail.com>]

On 29/10/08 21:21, Niko Tyni wrote:
> # dpkg --auto-deconfigure --unpack perl-modules_5.10.0-16_all.deb ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.1_amd64.deb 

I tried this but it didn't success:

seismo@ksbdhcp044:~$ sudo dpkg --auto-deconfigure --unpack 
perl-modules_5.10.0-16_all.deb
(Reading database ... 74783 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace perl-modules 5.10.0-16 (using 
perl-modules_5.10.0-16_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl-modules ...

seismo@ksbdhcp044:~$ sudo dpkg --auto-deconfigure --unpack 
ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.1_i386.deb
dpkg: considering removing gs-common in favour of ghostscript ...
dpkg: yes, will remove gs-common in favour of ghostscript.
(Reading database ... 74783 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ghostscript (from ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.1_i386.deb) ...
Can't locate File/Copy.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl 
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 
/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl 
.) at /usr/bin/defoma-app line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/defoma-app line 7.
dpkg: error processing ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ghostscript_8.62.dfsg.1-3.1_i386.deb


A Copy.pm file is found under /usr/share/perl/5.10.0/File/ but it is not 
searched there. I haven't tried to make a symbolic link to this file in one of 
the directory the file is searched in because I am not sure this wouldn't just 
be an ugly fix anusefull for finding a solution to the bug. What do you think ?

--
Giovanni