Re: base-config broken
On Friday 19 August 2005 12:20, Mark Crean wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 13:07 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using Sid, and i did an upgrade this morning.
> > I got this.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > root-h1-59# apt-get -f install
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> > 1 not fully installed or removed.
> > Need to get 0B of archives.
> > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> > Setting up base-config (2.70) ...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.postinst: line 59: syntax error near
> > unexpected token `db_fset'
> > dpkg: error processing base-config (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > base-config
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > How should I solve it? Have I just got to wait for the next update?
>
> If you follow through on the bug reports they will give you the
> solution:
>
> download sources
> cd to download directory
> dpkg-source -x base-config*.dsc
> remove final slash from line 57 of /debian/postinst in base-config-2.70
> cd base-config-2.70
> /debian/rules build
> sudo ./debian/rules binary
> cd ..
> sudo dpkg -i base-config*deb
Actually if you have already used apt-get to download the package then
simply editing it in place:-
sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.postinst
and getting rid of the offending /
and then rerunning apt-get -u upgrade
is quite sufficient. There is no need to get the source.
David
>
> and everything now works. Or at least, this way worked for me.
> Otherwise, maybe you could revert to the previous version/
>
> :)
>
> Fish
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