Re: Serious apt-get problem -- horked whole system
On Thursday 24 March 2005 12:53 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 00:03 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > I was using Ethereal, and reading the docs, when I realized the docs were
> > for a newer version, so I added it with:
> >
> > apt-get install etherial=.10.??-? -t testing
> >
> > (I can't remember the exact version number that I found was available.)
> >
> > This caused a problem with libgtk2.0-bin, where I kept getting an error
> > that the post-install script exited with error code 1. I finally found
> > the script, and the error was because it wasn't being called with an
> > argument. At this point, I couldn't install this package, I couldn't
> > remove it, configure it or do anything. With nothing else to do, I
> > deleted all the related files in /var/dpkg/info/ that were related to
> > this package, and tried to re-install and got the same errors. I removed
> > the deb file
> > from /var/apt/cache, re-removed the files in /var/dpkg/info, and tried to
> > re-install.
> >
> > I couldn't, so I removed it, which removed a ton of other packages. I
> > tried re-installing and found I had to use libgtk2.0-bin >=2.6x. At this
> > point, no matter what I do, I can't fully remove or install this package.
> > I did install it, and started reinstalling a number of the packages it
> > forced to remove. None of the re-installed programs run, giving me an
> > error, like this from Abiword:
> >
> > abiword: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0: undefined
> > symbol: g_filename_display_name
> >
> > So, at this point, I don't even have gdm available, so I don't want to
> > log out of my session (which, since I work at home, I don't do that often
> > anyway).
> >
> > So how can I wipe anything connected with this package and make sure it
> > installs correctly, so I can re-install all the packages that depend on
> > it (I copied and pasted a list of all the packages it removed)?
> >
> > I'm pushing hard on another project that I *HAVE* to finish, and at this
> > point, I don't dare reboot or even log out of KDE because I don't want to
> > have to deal with all the programs that won't restart with this package
> > (and all that depended on it) removed. I do NOT have time to re-install
> > my workstation.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Hi, Hal.
Hi, Ron. Guess you can't hide from me.
> Aren't you running Mepis, i.e., a mixed system?
No. This one is the one remaining Libranet system.
And that might change if I get the program I'm working on soon enough, I might
have time to re-install this with either Mepis or the new Sarge installer.
Otherwise, I want to fix it without having to backup /home and everything
else that goes with re-installing, but keeping my settings and data.
Hal
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