Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:20:09PM +0100, Willi Dyck wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I have several problems installing the latest version of modutils.
>
> 1.) Output of 'apt-get install modutils':
> Preparing to replace modutils 2.3.11-13.1 (using.../modutils_2.4.2-0.bunk_i386.deb) ...
> Removing obsoleted files:
> Unpacking replacement modutils ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.4.2-0.bunk_i386.deb (--unpack):
> unable to install new version of `./sbin/lsmod': Operation not permitted
> dpkg: error while cleaning up: unable to restore backup version of `/sbin/lsmod': Operation not
> permitted
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.4.2-0.bunk_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> 2.) 'apt-get remove modutils' to install it from scratch, won't work,
> because of the inconsistence in [1]. The same for 'apt-get install modutils
> --reinstall'.
>
> 3.) What kind of "Operation not permitted" is ment in [1]?
> read/write/execute?
> $ ls -al /sbin/lsmod:
> l-ws-ws--x 1 root root 6 Dec 10 22:18 /sbin/lsmod
> -> insmod
> Several friends of mine have the same file-permissions for that
> file. Changing that permissions to whatever I want, does not solve
> this problem.
>
> Waiting hopefully for any suggestions ;-)
>
did you try `dpkg --purge modutils`. What are the results of this?
->W
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