on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:40:02PM -0500, Hall Stevenson (hallstevenson@mindspring.com) wrote: > When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that > /etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want > fetchmail started at bootup... > > Here's the main part of the error message: > > Preparing to replace fetchmail 5.8.16-1 (using > .../fetchmail_5.8.17-1_i386.deb) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.prerm: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: No such file > or directory > Unpacking replacement fetchmail ... > Setting up fetchmail (5.8.17-1) ... > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: file does not exist > dpkg: error processing fetchmail (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > fetchmail > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Check the fetchmail preinst and postinst install scripts under /var/lib/dpkg/info. See if you can isolate the lines checking for these files. This may be a packaging bug. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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