Re: package fails to install; fails to remove; breaks upgrade of other packages

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

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 14:56:50 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> On lenny, I tried to install package anon-proxy. Aptitude encountered
> the following problems:
> 
> /------------
> [...]
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Selecting previously deselected package libxerces-c28.
> (Reading database ... 390218 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libxerces-c28 (from .../libxerces-c28_2.8.0-3_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package anon-proxy.
> Unpacking anon-proxy (from .../anon-proxy_00.05.38+20080710-1_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package mixmaster.
> [...]
> Setting up anon-proxy (00.05.38+20080710-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing anon-proxy (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up mixmaster (3.0.0-1) ...
> [..]
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  anon-proxy
> \------------

[...]

Try to use "set -x" in the post-installation script and run "dpkg
--configure anon-proxy" again, maybe that will tell you what is going
wrong. The script should be here: /var/lib/dpkg/info/dirmngr.postinst

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