Re: how to debug an apt-get error?
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:48:53PM -0300, Toshiro wrote:
> 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?
Yes, package metadata is stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.*
It looks like this error has already been reported:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224567
You can always view a package's bugs by visiting
http://bugs.debian.org/<package> or using by apt-listbugs.
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