Re: Problem w/apt-get dist-upgrade

[Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>]

On 8 Oct 1999, David Coe wrote:

> "Stephen R. Gore" <sgore@ev1.net> writes:
> 
> > I'm trying to upgrade a fresh slink base-install to potato.  I've upgraded
> > apt (0.3.7slink0), edited sources.list, did apt-get update, and apt-get
> > dist-upgrade. (I've done all this from scratch 3 times - it's repeatable).
> > 
> > I get the following error:
> > 
> > E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Pre-Invoke 'mount -o remount,rw /usr'

I tracked this down here to the fact that I had installed
/usr/doc/apt-get/examples/apt.conf with appropriate changes for my site,
but I missed this bit:

   // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
   Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
   Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};

HTH
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Lindsay Allen   <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au>  Perth, Western Australia
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