Re: System needs repair after fsck
Uwe Dippel wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:43 -0400, Marty wrote:
A likely fix is to purge and reinstall the affected python packages.
How !?!
The circular effect sets in.
Somehow I must consider this a bug in the whole concept of Debian !?
By running dpkg manually, i.e: "dpkg -P <pkgname>"
Alternatively it may be possible to just comment out this line for
now just to get debsums installed. Hopefully somebody else will
give more specific advice, but I think you are close to the solution.
I can think of something easier, but I'd need an apt expert:
It has *somewhere* stored that it wants to upgrade / reinstall several
packages; one of them debconf.
Since debconf seems to be quite okay - from all what I have been doing -
chances are, if I can remove it from the 'stack' of apps to be
(re-)installed, the whole thing will work:
I don't know if that would be good thing to do, since you have to assume
that there is a good reason for debconf dependence on precompiled python
libraries. But that's probably the same risk you take by commenting that
line out of the posinst script.
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^^^^^^this 'bloody' debconf messes up the whole shebang !:
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^^^^^^ it *thinks * it isn't configured, but its conf-files are okay!
Once again, I don't think it's safe to assume debconf is configured, or
at least safe to use, if its dependencies are not met.
<snip?
It is here where I want to know about the file storing these 5 packages.
How could I trick apt-get into forgetting them, and just do a Python
reinstall ? Or anything else, except debconf ?
And debconf at the very end only ?
Again, the problem is probably somewhere in a python package that got
corrupted. That probably should be the main focus.
Uwe
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