Re: Need dpkg expert
Rogério Brito wrote:
On Mar 18 2002, Kent West wrote:
This did allow me to purge the offending packages. However, it has not
solved the problem.
(...)
The problem seems to be with the packaging infra-structure.
Can you reinstall dpkg, apt, debconf, apt-utils etc? This
might perhaps help your situation, I'd think...
If it doesn't then the problem seems to be indeed really
serious...
Hope this helps, Roger...
It's beginning to look a lot like rebuild, everywhere I go . . . .
fafsa-02[westk]:/var/lib/dpkg/info> sudo apt-get --reinstall install
dpkg apt debconf apt-utils
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 reinstalled, 0 to remove and
131 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 787kB/1956kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main apt 0.5.4 [615kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main apt-utils 0.5.4 [173kB]
Fetched 787kB in 21s (36.4kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 21486 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.9.19 (using
.../archives/dpkg_1.9.19_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Setting up dpkg (1.9.19) ...
(Reading database ... 21486 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debconf 1.0.31 (using .../debconf_1.0.31_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debconf ...
Preparing to replace apt 0.5.4 (using .../archives/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apt ...
Setting up apt (0.5.4) ...
(Reading database ... 21486 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace apt-utils 0.5.4 (using
.../apt-utils_0.5.4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apt-utils ...
Setting up debconf (1.0.31) ...
Setting up apt-utils (0.5.4) ...
Setting up xdm (4.1.0-14) ...
+ THIS_PACKAGE=xdm
+ THIS_SCRIPT=postinst
+ trap 'message; message "Received signal. Aborting xdm package
postinst script."; message; exit 1' 1 2 3 15
+ command -v readlink
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' '' ']'
++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.postinst
configure ''
dpkg: error processing xdm (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
xdm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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