On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 11:28, Sh1t Scared wrote: > The reported Bug #293667 in mailscanner is preventing a successful upgrade > from woody to sarge for me. > > I get the following error when I perform either > apt-get install mailscanner or > aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: line 22: db_get: command not found > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mailscanner_4.41.3-2_all.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/mailscanner_4.41.3-2_all.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I am left with 65 packages needing either upgrading or installling. > > Re-installing debconf made no difference. > db_get does exists in /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > > I have tried remove and install. > > Not sure if its relevant I did have a problem with perl and had to "nudge" > it to work. > Any other suggestions? What I would suggest, and this is only a suggestion, is to remove the package mailscanner, perform the dist-upgrade (I'd use apt, because I'm more familiar with it). Then install mailscanner after the upgrade has completed. What I imagine is happening is that you are currently stuck in a state where some packages are trying to be installed from sarge when you have base packages still in woody. -- o) Derek Wueppelmann (o (D . monkey@monkeynet.ca D). ((` http://www.monkeynet.ca/ ( ) `
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