pam, ppp broken after dpkg-ftp hamm upgrade
I had installed the essential files seperatly as per the
instructions in libc6 HOWTO. I hope it was safe to then
use dpkg-ftp (which stopped seg faulting after I removed
a dangling ncurses sym link) to try to ease the upgrade
of other packages, because this is what I tried to do.
Many packages reported dependency problems, but I expected
to get rid of (most) of them by running the installation
procedure several times (is this still the strategy of
choice?). However, when I tried to bring ppp up again, I
got errors saying something about a pam object file not
being available. I nipped off to a semi-complete archieve
of packages I have and started installing things that matched
*pam*. Two packages seem to be mutually dependent on each
other in a way that allows neither to be configured:
# find . -name "*pam*" -print
./admin/libpam0g-util_0.57b-0.deb
./devel/libpam-doc_0.57b-0.deb
./devel/libpam0g-dbg_0.57b-0.deb
./devel/libpam0g-dev_0.57b-0.deb
./libs/libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb
./mail/spamdb_1.1.deb
./mail/spamfilter_1.0-1.deb
./net/ppp-pam_2.3.3-2.deb
./oldlibs/libpam0-altdev_0.57b-0.deb
./oldlibs/libpam0-altutil_0.57b-0.deb
./oldlibs/libpam0_0.57b-0.deb
# cd libs
# dpkg --install libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb
(Reading database ... 31158 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libpam0g 0.57b-0 (using libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libpam0g ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpam0g:
libpam0g depends on libpam0g-util (>= 0.57b-0); however:
Package libpam0g-util is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libpam0g
# cd ../admin
# dpkg --install libpam0g-util_0.57b-0.deb
(Reading database ... 31158 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libpam0g-util 0.57b-0 (using
libpam0g-util_0.57b-0.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libpam0g-util ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpam0g-util:
libpam0g-util depends on libpam0g (>= 0.57b-0); however:
Package libpam0g is not configured yet.
libpam0g-util depends on libpwdb0g; however:
Package libpwdb0g is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libpam0g-util (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libpam0g-util
I can't repeat the error I first got from ppp, since the installation of
these unconfigured packages has changed:
$ pon
/usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: Permission
denied
Is this the expected behavior? If so, what is the accepted way to tell
these packages to configure themselves, or each other, or whatever?
Thanks.
Britton Kerin
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