Re: Safe-upgrade of "dash" fails
On 2009-08-06 00:11 +0200, Jack Knowlton wrote:
> Coming back from a month-long trip, I decided to safe-upgrade my debian
> unstable desktop. Among the hundreds of new packages, apt seemed eager to
> install (or upgrade, I'm not sure) dash.
This is intended.
> Unfortunately, something seems to have gone terribly wrong and I would
> like to complete successfully the upgrade before rebooting the box. Here's
> what aptitude is complaining about:
>
> Unpacking dash (from .../dash_0.5.5.1-2.3_amd64.deb) ...
> Adding `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash'
> Adding `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to
> /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash'
> dpkg (subprocess): unable to exec dpkg-deb to get filesystem archive: No
> such file or directory
That sounds as if you had lost dpkg-deb, which would be very worrisome.
Did you upgrade dpkg as well, and did anything go wrong with it? Check
whether /usr/bin/dpkg-deb exists and is executable, and look into
/var/log/dpkg.log for recently installed/upgraded/removed packages.
Sven
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