Re: how to debug an apt-get error?
On Saturday 20 December 2003 16:38, Kent West wrote:
> Toshiro wrote:
> >I'm running sid, I'm having a problem with the upgrade of kdm, the error
> > just says that the postinstallation script return an error (30). This
> > message is very cryptic and it's pretty much useless.
>
> What tool are you using to do the upgrade? apt-get upgrade?
> dist-upgrade? aptitude? synaptic? dselect? other?
I've tried with dselect and apt-get upgrade
>
> > Anybody know if there is a procedure to see what is going on really? I
> > mean, I'd like to watch the execution of the postinstall script to see
> > where is failing. Is it possible to do that?
>
> You might try "locate kdm | grep postinst.sh" or something similar to
> find the file.
Ok, I can see the file, but I want to monitor its execution when I run
'apt-get upgrade' (like for example I could easily do with a shell script
using sh -x). Is this possible?
Toshiro
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