Re: dpkg: error processing libpam-runtime (--configure):
On (16/04/04 17:11), Michael Linton wrote:
> I recently took over a Debian system whose previous owner had been using
> "testing" apt-get sources. For reasons that now make no sense even to me I
> switched to "unstable" sources I had been using (without any apparent
> problems) on my laptop for a year.
>
> So - apt-get upgrade failed ------------
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Setting up libpam-runtime (0.76-18) ...
> dpkg: error processing libpam-runtime (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation scritp returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libpam-runtime
>
> I'm now pointing to "testing" again but getting the same result. I tried
> running dpkg -i libpam-runtime.. from the command line and got
> the same result.
>
> # apt-get dist-upgrade does the same.
>
> What could I do to elucidate the actual error message (from post-installation
> script) itself?
If you search the archives http://lists.debian.org/search.html there was
a thread on this recently. Subject: libpam-runtime is broken in
unstable
Go to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243426
The fix is to touch /etc/pam.d/other.pre-upgrade and then your upgrade
will continue.
HTH
Clive
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