Re: Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> Vitux <viggovap@mail.worldonline.dk> wrote:
> >The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just
> >crapped out?)
> >Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go
> >installing stuff.
> >Now, I get "bash: dselect: command not found".
> >Ok, maybe there's some path been lost:
> >~#whereis dselect
> >Dselect: /usr/bin/dselect
> >Let's try it, then:
> >~#/usr/bin/dselect
> >bash: usr/bin/dselect: Input/output error
>
> It sounds like something dselect's calling is dying, perhaps - or
> alternatively you might have a disk problem. Could you run 'strace
> dselect' or 'strace /usr/bin/dselect' as root and post at least the end
> of the log that results, please?
Thanks, will try. What exactly is strace (s-trace?)?
>
> If you don't have the strace package (you should, as it's standard),
> then download it manually and 'dpkg -i' the package file.
>
> >The really weird part is, I've used it just today to install the
> >mach64-xserver from which I'm typing this?! Along with mach64 (which I
> >chose to install) potato wanted to install lots of stuff I'm not using,
> >including emacs, xemacs, and a german dictionary (I don't even speak
> >german).
>
> emacs20 is standard; xemacs21 may be getting pulled in by something. The
> German dictionary is odd - perhaps you're getting slightly confused by
> dselect here. ispell (a standard package) recommends ispell-dictionary,
> and igerman/ingerman happen to provide this. When you install ispell,
> dselect's dependency resolution screen will pop up a list of all the
> available packages providing ispell-dictionary, with the idea that you
> choose one of them. Once you get used to it, the lower pane that
> provides descriptions of the current problems - and of the packages,
> too, if you hit 'i' - can be very helpful.
Hmmm, I see what you mean. I didn't <choose> to install
ispell, but then that could be pulled in by something else...
>
> >I chose not to install most of this, except for some gnomelibs and a
> >few other libs, which I figured might be important.
>
> Did you have to override dselect in its ideas about dependencies? If so,
> you might have removed or failed to install something important ... you
> didn't uninstall libstdc++2.10 or any of the ncurses stuff, did you?
Nope, I didn't override it. libstc and ncurses still here
(need it for making kernels ;-).
>
> If that's the problem, you'll likely be able to recover it with plain
> dpkg, though it might take a bit of to-and-froing on this mailing list.
> :)
Thanks for your help!
Regards Vitux
>
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> Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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