Package: bash Version: 4.0-5 Severity: serious If dash is _not_ configured to be used as /bin/sh, installing bash 4.0-5 loses the /bin/sh symlink during the unpack phase which leads to interesting problems when other packages' postinst scripts are triggered:
,---- | # LANG=C aptitude safe-upgrade | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Reading extended state information | Initializing package states... Done | The following packages will be upgraded: | bash | 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B/1098kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. | Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] | Writing extended state information... Done | (Reading database ... 20103 files and directories currently installed.) | Preparing to replace bash 4.0-4 (using .../archives/bash_4.0-5_i386.deb) ... | Unpacking replacement bash ... | Processing triggers for install-info ... | dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: No such file or directory | dpkg: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) | A package failed to install. Trying to recover: | E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. | E: Could not regain the system lock! (Perhaps another apt or dpkg is running?) | E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Reading extended state information | Initializing package states... Done `---- Fortunately bash's postinst restores the /bin/sh symlink, so running "dpkg --configure --pending" fixed up things, although I had to run it twice to get all the triggers processed. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
