Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote:
> Greetings. Tried to use aptitude this morning to install the update for 
> openssh/openssl. Saw that there were a few upgrades that were needed so I 
> thought I'd just do a dist-upgrade. 
> 
> Everything seemed ok, except now I'm stuck with util-linux in an inconsistent 
> state, and I don't know quite know how to resolve it. I tried to 'aptitude 
> reinstall', and get the following:

[...]

> Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12r-19 
> (using .../util-linux_2.12r-19etch1_amd64.deb) ...
> Errno architecture (x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.18-1-amd64) does not 
> match executable architecture (x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.24-1-amd64) 
> at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11.

/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of
it and the proper module at /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm will be used.
Running "aptitude install -f" should then be enough to fix your system.

> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/install-info line 308.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/install-info line 308.
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 9

[...]

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |