On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:54:46AM -0500, Ross Vandegrift said > Hello everyone, > > I was playing around with an alternate ppp package yesterday and > determined that I wanted to go back to the woody package. I built the > modified ppp package myself, using the woody source as the base. I > applied a few patches, built the .deb and installed it on two machines. > > So I tried removing ppp like 'dpkg --remove ppp' and it > complained about needed ppp for pppoe, pppconfig, ppoeconf. Since I > don't use any of these I ran 'dpkg --remove pppoe pppconfig pppoeconf'. > > Now dpkg gives a "Bus Error" whenever it tries to do any actual > work (ie, 'dpkg --help' work fine). The machine has neither gdb nor > strace to debug this problem. That's odd. Does running "dselect update" help? Does "debsums" show any disk corruption? -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Sarin nerve gas Oil deals Etacs Merlin Oil deals Australia
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