Package: netbase Version: 4.20 Severity: normal Here's a typical result of a remote dist-upgrade which /usr/sbin/update-inetd breaks:
hooke ~$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get dist-upgrade Password: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up cupsys-bsd (1.1.23-7) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype Couldn't reopen stdin at /usr/sbin/update-inetd line 29. dpkg: error processing cupsys-bsd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6 Errors were encountered while processing: cupsys-bsd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) cheers, Phil -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages netbase depends on: ii debconf 1.4.46 Debian configuration management sy ii ifupdown 0.6.4-4.12 high level tools to configure netw ii netkit-inetd 0.10-10 The Internet Superserver ii netkit-ping [ping] 0.10-10 The ping utility from netkit ii tcpd 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilit -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]