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Re: Upgrades blocked by half-installed package, libpam0g



Am 2008-08-28 03:54:23, schrieb John O'Hagan:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running lenny.
> 
> The power failed on my laptop during a recent upgrade about a week
> ago. Don't know if this is why, but attempts to upgrade or install any
> new packages since then fail because aptitude (or rather dpkg) chokes
> on repeated attempts to configure libpam0g:
> 
> dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libpam0g
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I've tried aptitude -f install and reinstall, but these have the same

This can not work...

Do you have tried:

    cd /var/cache/apt/archive
    dpkg --force-all --install libpam0g_*

This should do the trick ignoring all WARNINGS and ERRORS

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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