RE: Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap fails, and the house falls in
Hello? Anyone home?
I decided to drop back to Sarge, based on what I read on the Marc,
and then change my sources.list to testing, do an update, then upgrade,
then dist-upgrade.
So, I went to install Sarge, and it won't install either. I get a
"debootstrap program exited with an error" on the main screen, once
again in the "Install base system" step, and, when I go to console 3,
there is this message as the earliest error I can find:
"Use of uninitialized variable in concatenation (.) or string in
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm" line 22",
then a later error:
"dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `root` in statoverride file"
Any help out there at all? I've struggled with this for three days,
installing and searching mail archives and googling. I've installed
Debian a bunch before, and this is the only time I've had problems
like this. I'm going to continue looking and posting what I find,
but there are bound to be some gurus out there (or even someone who
had a hand in writing this Debian installer).
TIA,
allen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Williams [mailto:anw@csunv.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 10:51 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap fails,
> and the house falls in
>
>
> In the Install base system stage, (sorry- etch, i380 on 3.5
> GHz pentium) it start installing a bunch of libraries, etc.
> fine, then hits this message (it found some additional
> dependencies, etc.):
>
> Debootstrap warning
> Warning: couldn't download manpages
>
> Then, it can't download any package after that. Finally, at
> the end, I get:
>
> Warning: Failure to run chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc
>
> Debootstrap exited with an error
> check syslog...etc, etc.
>
> I found the Failure to run... message in the archives, but
> evidently, the person wasn't having all the previous problems
> I was. I tried to do what was recommended to him (dir
> /target/lib/ld-*, then try to execute the /target/lib/ld-*,
> which I did and it worked to the extent I got an error
> message for a bad command line (not knowing the syntax of the
> command).
>
> There's something in the log printed *vertically* that says
> it couldn't get debconf version information, is it installed?
>
> Then there's a message debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed
> illegal seek
>
> also, there's an error: dpkg: unknow user 'root' in statoverride file
>
> and dpkg fails.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> ----------------
> Allen Williams
> (321)258-1272
> anw@csunv.com
>
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