Re: dpkg problem
Unfortunately I cannot do anything in dpkg other than get the help listings.
All I get is the segmentation faults.
Ben Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote:
> > In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I
> > run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault.
> >
> > I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my
> > system.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea how I can get dpkg working again at least or at
> > most make dselect work. (I know they work together)
> >
> > I have a committed a cardinal sin in that I didn't write down the
> > package that started the problem but I have a sneaking suspicion it was
> > the dpkg update.
>
> Will dpkg atleast give you "dpkg -l <pkg>" ourput? If so can you see which
> versions of dpkg and libc6 you have on your system and in what state?
>
> # dpkg -l libc6 dpkg
>
> This would help a lot. Perhaps you got caught in between on what was needed
> for the libc6 2.0 -> 2.1 upgrade.
>
> Ben
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