Re: problem installing new packages

[Bernard <bdebreil@teaser.fr>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 00:09:07 +0200, Bernard wrote:
>   
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >     
> > > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 20:26:06 +0200, Bernard wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Before the end of install process, I got
> > > > this message :
> > > >
> > > > "
> > > > Configuring libc6
> > > >         
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >       
> > > > Do you want to upgrade glibc now ?
> > > > "
> > > >
> > > > I replied 'no', and, so far, I have not attempted to continue this
> > > > install process of 'audacity' and the upgrade of glibc.
> > > >         
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >       
> > > > Ever since then, I am encountering problems and error messages when
> > > > trying to install something. For instance, if I do :
> > > >
> > > > #apt-get install gphoto2
> > > >
> > > > the install process starts... then :
> > > >
> > > > "
> > > > Can't exec "locale": no file or directory of this type at
> > > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
> > > > Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar
> > > > chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17.
> > > > dpkg : « ldconfig » not found in the variable PATH.
> > > > dpkg: 1 expected program not found in the variable PATH.
> > > > NB : the variable PATH of the superuser should contain
> > > > /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin et /sbin.
> > > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> > > >         
> > > /usr/bin/locale and especially /sbin/ldconfig are important programs
> > > which are part of the libc-bin package. Your aborted libc6 upgrade seems
> > > to have removed this package (and possibly others), or something is
> > > wrong with your $PATH.
> > >
> > > Please post the output of this command
> > > dpkg -l libc6\* libc-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
> > >
> > > so that we can see the status of libc-related packages on your system.
> > >       
> > Here it is :
> >
> > new-host:/home/bd# dpkg -l libc6\* libc-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
> > Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
> > rc libc-bin 2.9-25
> > un libc-dev <néant>
> > ii libc6 2.7-18
> > ii libc6-dev 2.7-18
> > ii libc6-i686 2.7-18
> > un libc6.1 <néant>
> >     
>
> That does not look too bad on first glance, you seem to have the Lenny
> versions of the libc6* packages installed, and the testing version of
> libc-bin was removed again. In that case /sbin/ldconfig should still be
> part of libc6 itself. What do you get from:
>
> file /sbin/ldconfig
>
> dpkg -L libc6 | grep ldconfig
>
> echo $PATH
>
> (the last one as root)
>
>   

Here is what I get :

file /sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/ldconfig: ERROR: cannot open `/sbin/ldconfig' (No such file or directory)

dpkg -L libc6 | grep ldconfig
(it just returns the shell, nothing else)

root@new-host:/home/bd# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin