Hi, I am still not able to reproduce the bug, but I have an idea. It might be realted to the capabilities of the shell. Which shell are you using, i.e. where does /bin/sh point to?
Thanks Ben On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 19:09 -0400, Jack Pelrin wrote: > HI > > The situation I am reporting on stems from trying to install the > package "kaddressbook", which is out of sync with "libgnokii4" as > currently situated > on two different installs I have exhibiting the same behavior. > > The output when trying to install from a terminal is as follows: > > r...@milky3:[/home/jack] # apt-get install kaddressbook > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > kaddressbook: Depends: libgnokii4 but it is not going to be > installed > E: Broken packages > > But when trying to install using packagesearch, the xterm window > closes on the exit of the command, not showing a "Press enter to close > the terminal emulator" prompt. > > To answer your question about what happens if I run an 'apt-get > update' in packagesearch without a network connection, in that case > the xterm window did stay open showing the connection errors after the > update finished trying to run. It didn't prompt to continue. I had to > <ctrl>c out of it. > > The behavior I refer to in this bug report concerns running an > 'apt-get update' with a corrupted sources.list (specifically, adding > a random letter to the front of "http" in a mirror address). In this > case, the behavior I reported occurred where the 'apt-get update' > running in the xterm window returned an error but the window closed at > the termination of the 'apt-get update' before an error message could > be read. > > Obviously the 'apt-get update' error I introduced presents an unusual > system situation, I just thought it might be germain in debugging the > problem. > > Thanks > Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
