Re: xfs-xtt

[John Parejko <parejkoj@speakeasy.net>]

Thanks for the help!  Sorry for the delay, I've only had time to look 
into this recently.

Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:50:05PM -0400, John Parejko wrote:
>
> > Hello.  I've just recently settled on stable, from sarge-testing, and 
>
> Hi John,
> If I understand what you said:
> you were running 'testing' and now you are running 'stable'? This would
> be the case if you source.list refers to 'sarge'.

That is correct.

> > this error:
> >
> > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xfs-xtt is broken or not fully installed
> >
> > So I tried to remove it with:
> >
> > $ apt-get -V -q -f remove xfs-xtt
> >
> > Which produced this error:
> >
> > Removing xfs-xtt ...
> > dpkg (subpproocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error
>
>
> I would examine /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfs?????.prerm (check spelling for
> correct script) and either find the error and find a way to fix what the
> script is bombing on OR (since I suggest removing xfs-xtt) putting 
> 'exit 0' at the top of the script to disable it. And the then remove the
> package.

Ok, I looked at them, but they were garbled.  It turns out that 
xfs-xtt.* are all file type "data" -- "file xfs-xtt.*" -- and not 
readable.  64 files total in /var/lib/dpkg/info are also type data, 
according to

file * | grep -c " data"

and these are spread cross a seemingly random range of programs.  I 
think this is probably a bad thing, and don't know how it would have 
happened.  All the files in this directory should be plaintext shell 
files or just contain md5-sums, right?

Ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks again
John

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John Parejko
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
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