dpkg --configure broken, perl issue?
Hi all,
I managed to seriously screw up my debian/PPC box while doing a
dist-upgrade. I have a few questions, which hopefully someone else has
had some experience with, or maybe could point me in the direction of
an answer...
1. The command dpkg --configure --pending, for example, as well as most
post-install configuration, craps out with the following error:
/usr/bin/perl: relocation error:
/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext/gettext.so: undefined symbol:
Perl_Gthr_key_ptr
I am not a complete Linux novice but I didn't know what to make of this
error message. My guess was to re-install gettext and perl from source,
without any luck. Currently, the packages pending configuration have
multiple (broken) dependencies, usually on each other, and all fail
concurrently until dpkg finally gives up due to the number of errors.
2. It bears mentioning that the reason I'm even in this predicament is
because I had absent-mindedly agreed to separate dist-upgrade and
dselect-upgrade package requests, the latter of which, after adding
testing and unstable apt sources, contains a bunch of broken packages.
Presumably these are more current versions of packages failing
dependency checks, as I'd initially tried to just remove the testing
and unstable sources, update and re-upgrade. This ended up deleting
what were "nonessential" but obviously important packages like netbase
and the man command. Silly shit.
That said, is there any easy way to regenerate dselect's list of
packages, and clean out ones that aren't part of the stable
distribution?
Christ, what a mess. This is an RTFM lesson and a half. Thanks in
advance for any help,
Mark
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