Package: nis Version: 3.17-31 Severity: normal
When I do apt-get install nis on a fairly clean Debian install, it hangs during install and also gives me an error message from dpkg. See below. Setting NIS domainname to: kluster. Starting NIS services: ypbindbinding to YP server...........................................failed (backgrounded). dpkg: version 'nis_3.17-18' has bad syntax: invalid character in version number -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel : Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages nis depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii hostname 3.04 utility to set/show the host name ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-9 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.8 OpenSLP libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii make 3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati ii netbase 4.45 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii portmap 6.0.0-2 RPC port mapper nis recommends no packages. Versions of packages nis suggests: pn nscd <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: * nis/domain: kluster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org