Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

[Chris Purves <chris.purves@gmail.com>]

On 9/10/05, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

Chris Purves wrote:

> A recent upgrade with aptitude on testing exited halfway through with
> the following error:
>
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Setting up libpam0g (0.76-23) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postinst: line 3: 31771 Illegal
> instruction     ldconfig

I'd take a look at line 3 and the surrounding code of the
libpam06.postinst script and see if anything looks odd, like a
semi-colon in the wrong place, or if it's trying to overwrite a certain
file, I'd check the attributes on that file or maybe move it manually, etc.

Here are the contents of the file:

>>>
#!/bin/sh -e

case "$1" in
        configure)
                ldconfig
                ;;
        abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
                ;;
esac

# Automatically added by dh_makeshlibs
if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
        ldconfig
fi
# End automatically added section
<<<

Line 3 is the case statement.  I
don't have much practice with shell scripting, so I don't know if
there's a problem.  Also, if I run "ldconfig" at the command line,
it returns "Illegal instruction", so I don't know if the problem lies
with the postinst file.  

-- 
Take care, eh.
Chris