OK. Here's the situation. I'm a bit stumped: Debian 2.2, running on a p133 32MB Trying to install some stuff via apt, apt decided to remove gnome-bin. Which is OK with me: I don't really use gnome anyway. Except that it's not trying to remove gnome-bin each time, and breaking apt's functionality (as well as dpkg). Error(s): 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 execution of /usr/sbin/suidunregistrer aborged due to compilation errors. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encoutnered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1.0.54-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Since this has happened, I can only sometimes apt-get install or upgrade, I can partially remove stuff. I've tried removing gnome-bin with apt and dpkg. dpkg suggests that I reinstall the package to remove it (package gnome-bin_xxx is seriously damaged. Perhaps you should reinstall?), but I get the same errors when I try to reinstall (again, from apt or dpkg) except that the errors are in /usr/sbin/suidregister. Any ideas? I'd be happy to manually deinstall or reinstall the thing (from source?) Am I hosed? Help? glen >
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