RE: Error in suidunregister

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 16-Jan-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I ran 'apt-get upgrade' on my potato machine. By running the
> installation scripts I get the following error.
> Global symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at
> /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173.
> Global symbol "$groupname" requires explicit package name at
> /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 174.
> Global symbol "$inode" requires explicit package name at
> /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 178.
> So I cannot install mount, telnetd-ssl and so on.
> Please help me as soon as possible.

I just removed the suidmanager package and then I was able to install the
other packages.  The most recent suidmanager package is broken.  I reinstalled
the previous version and all is well, but you don't really need it; you can do
without it until it gets fixed.

--
Andrew