Solved: Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?]
Vitux wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > >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?
> >
> > 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.
> > :)
> >
> > --
> > Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
> >
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> Happiness and glee, dselect is back up again. I did a reboot
> to install an extra disk, and it got back again. I guess some
> process must have hung or something.
> Great.
> Sorry to bother you guys.
> Regards
> Vitux
>
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