Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue
At 12:11 7/10/2002 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
Hello there stranger!
Hey Crispin :)
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:48, Chris McCormick wrote:
>
> I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where
> someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away".
> Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it
> works. It's very transient - that is to say, sometimes it will just work.
> for example, i can issue the exact same command line twice in a row and
the
> second or third time it will just work.
What does df show you? Is there lots of space in /var?
/var is housed here:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 19G 8.6G 9.4G 48% /
Make a test directory. Try dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir
Does it work? All the time? Intermittently?
That seems to work fine. It unpacks ok into the test dir.
I know that when I do dpkg --unpack in the past it has worked
intermittently. At the moment though, it's just not working at all.
So the situation is that dpkg -X works but dpkg --unpack doesn't.
You could try comparing straces of the dpkg command when it works and
when it doesn't work
strace -fF dpkg -X packagename.deb /path/to/testdir 2>strace.output
Excellent suggestion - at the moment I can't get it to run correctly ever
though. :(
running:
strace -fF dpkg --unpack libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb
doesn't tell me anything i can understand. if someone more knowledgable
wants to look at the copy of the output i can send it to them.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Chris.
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