On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:17:05PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:51:03 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > > [...] > > > > > > This is what happens when I try to dist-upgrade now: > > > > > > > > > squeeze:/home/frank# aptitude dist-upgrade > > > > [...] > > > > > The following packages will be upgraded: > > > libmysqlclient16 mysql-common > > > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > > > adobe-flashplugin > > > 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not > > > upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 49.2kB will > > > be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin > > > package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. > > > Writing extended state information... Done E: I wasn't able to > > > locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean > > > you need to manually fix this package. E: Internal error: > > > couldn't generate list of packages to download > > > > Stop trying to dist-upgrade until you've resolved the adobe issue. > > I'm not really familiar with the use of the package from adobe > > itself, to salt liberally. > > > > I would start with aptitude reinstall adobe-flashplugin > > > root@squeeze:~# aptitude reinstall adobe-flashplugin > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > The following packages will be REINSTALLED: > adobe-flashplugin > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. > Writing extended state information... Done > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the adobe-flashplugin package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. > E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download look in /var/cache/apt/archives for the deb file. if it's missing, maybe try manually downloading it, although I would think it would download it automatically... hrmm... > > > > and if that didn't work, I'd move to purging it altogether. > > root@squeeze:~# aptitude remove --purge adobe-flashplugin > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > adobe-flashplugin > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 10.4MB will be freed. > Writing extended state information... Done > dpkg: error processing adobe-flashplugin (--remove): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. > Errors were encountered while processing: > adobe-flashplugin > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done try manually with dpkg? either the reinstall or the purge, though I doubt it will move ahead any. you might look at the output of dpkg -L adobe-flashplugin and then check the state of all those files. also, dpkg has various force options you might look into for doing things manually. [...] > > Likely you'll need to try to figure out what you did with the adobe > > package and undo it completely. > > The ONLY thing in the Adobe tar.gz package was the flash library, which > I manually copied to 2 plugin directories. I have since removed them. > But somewhere along the line something got very foobared. right. so I wonder if you removed a file that adobe-flashplugin was expecting to find? > > Even dpkg-reconfigure does nothing except complain that iceape is missing ( I never > had it on this system) wierd. > > I am at wits end....about to wipe the partition I don't think you're there yet... that's a pretty drastic measure. A
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