It looks like it was getting upset by
orwell:/etc# hg st
? emacs23/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Once this was removed, the problem went away. I thought the files in
question had to be tracked for etckeeper to barf over this.
Regards, Faheem.
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Faheem Mitha wrote:
Package: etckeeper
Version: 0.38
Severity: normal
fah...@orwell:/usr/local/src/emacs$ sudo apt-get remove --purge
emacs23 emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common emacs23-el emacs23-gtk
emacs23-nox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package emacs23-gtk is not installed, so not removed
Package emacs23-nox is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
emacs* emacs23* emacs23-bin-common* emacs23-common* emacs23-el*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 83.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
** etckeeper detected uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
** Aborting apt run. Manually commit and restart.
E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Pre-Invoke 'if [ -x
/usr/sbin/etckeeper ]; then etckeeper pre-install; fi'
E: Sub-process returned an error code
fah...@orwell:/usr/local/src/emacs$ sudo hg diff -R /etc
fah...@orwell:/usr/local/src/emacs$
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'testing'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-vserver-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages etckeeper depends on:
ii bzr 1.9~rc1-1 easy to use distributed version co
ii darcs 2.2.0-1 a distributed, interactive, smart
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii git-core 1:1.5.6.5-3+lenny2 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
ii mercurial 1.3.1-1 scalable distributed version contr
Versions of packages etckeeper recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
etckeeper suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
etckeeper/commit_failed:
etckeeper/purge: true
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