Re: Update warning.

[Frank M <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 01/23/2018 05:31 PM, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 24/01/18 11:08, Frank M wrote:
> > Just a warning for Debian Sid users - this one caught me today and
> >
> > now a bunch of necessary things ( mostly systemd related ) won't run and
> >
> > things like apt . aptitude, dpkg, etc are useless.
> >
> >
> > I don't know at this point how I am going to repair this system. Had to
> >
> > boot Mint Mate to send this.
> >
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888180
> Looks like symlinking /bin/sh to /bin/bash (or maybe /usr/bin/dash?)
> instead of /bin/dash might get you going?
>
> Richard


Well after looking again at the bug report, I copied DASH from /usr/bin 
to /bin and
that did it. It's just a temporary fix, but it got the system going for 
now. A repackaged
DASH is apparently on the way.
I'll undo my fix after the new package gets installed.