Re: Trying to upgrade bash on squeeze, running into errors

[Russell Jones <russell-list@jonesmail.me>]

Hi Don,

Thanks for the help! It looks like the diversion does exist, so doesn't 
look like that's the issue:

local diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib


I am not wanting to change the default shell, just trying to upgrade 
bash to close the Shellshock vulnerability.  Any further ideas on how to 
get past this issue?

Thanks!


On 9/26/2014 6:43 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Russell Jones wrote:
> > I've seen several posts about this Bash upgrade issue, but no real
> > answers on how to get past it. Any assistance would be appreciated,
> > thank you!
> This looks like the diversions for /bin/sh got removed or otherwise
> improperly modified at some point in time.
>
> dpkg-divert --list '/bin/sh*';
>
> will show you what the diversions are.
>
> You should have a diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash or by
> bash (depending on which of them you want to be the default shell).
>
> If the diversion doesn't exist, then you probably want to run the
> following (for dash to be the default shell)
>
> dpkg-divert --package dash --divert /bin/sh.distrib --add /bin/sh;
> dpkg-divert --package dash --divert /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz \
>   --add /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz;
>
> or similar.
>
> In theory, running /var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.preinst; should also do this
> for you.