Re: Removing "modules" and "base"

[Johann Spies <jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za>]

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
> 
> > > What does dpkg print when it tries to upgrade modutils?
> > 
> > The output of dpkg -i was:
> > 
...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/modutils.prerm: /etc/init.d/kerneld: No such file or directory
...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/kerneld: No such file or directory
> > update-rc.d: warning /etc/init.d/kerneld doesn't exist during rc.d setup.
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/modutils.postinst: /etc/init.d/kerneld: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 126
> 
> Strange.. on my box:
> 
> $dpkg -S kerneld
> ..
> modutils: /sbin/kerneld
> modutils: /etc/init.d/kerneld
> ..
> 
> Could you check if these files do actually exist on your system? (What is
> in your /etc/init.d/kerneld? mine is in fact empty.)
> If not, doing "touch /etc/init.d/kerneld" and then retrying "dpkg -i
> modutils_2.1.34-5.deb" might solve your problem.
> 
Thanks.  This information helped me to solve the problem.

Johann.




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