RE: Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap fails, and the house falls in
I'm now at the point, via random attempts to fix this, where "Install base
system" fails because mount is looking for libdevmapper.so.1.02, and what is
on my CD is libdevmapper.1.01.
Can I just set up a symlink to a file with the right name to
libdevmapper.1.01? I don't want to corrupt the disk, I have existing data.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Williams [mailto:anw@csunv.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 1:18 PM
> To: 'Allen Williams'; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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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