Package: dpkg Version: 1.2.6elf I think this is a dpkg, but there may be a problem with sysklogd as well. On updating my system, the sysklogd postinst script failed because /etc/init.d/sysklogd didn't exist. Why doesn't dpkg extract the script from the package? Presumably because it's a conffile and it's upgrading the package. I don't know what version of sys(k)logd I had installed before, but it was in the unstable distribution, and was working (and so presumably had /etc/init.d/sys(k)logd). Here's a typescript of and attempt to reinstall sysklogd.
Script started on Wed Jun 19 13:53:07 1996 userm:/root# dpkg -i /debian/debian/buzz/binary-i386/base/sysklogd-1.3-6.deb (Reading database ... 3480 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace sysklogd (using .../base/sysklogd-1.3-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sysklogd ... Setting up sysklogd ... update-rc.d: warning /etc/init.d/sysklogd doesn't exist during rc.d setup. Version 1.3 of the package is the culmination of about two years of experience and bug reports on the 1.2 version from both the INTERNET and our corporate Linux networks. The default behaviour of syslogd has altered from 1.2 to 1.3. By default *no* messages from the UDP port are accepted. Read the documentation in /usr/doc/base/sysklogd carefully. Some important things have been changed! /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysklogd.postinst: /etc/init.d/sysklogd: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing sysklogd (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: sysklogd userm:/root# cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/sysklogd.conffiles /etc/syslog.conf /etc/init.d/sysklogd /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd userm:/root# ls /etc/init.d/sysklogd ls: /etc/init.d/sysklogd: No such file or directory userm:/root# dpkg -l dpkg sysklogd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii dpkg 1.2.6elf Package maintenance system for Debian Linux ii sysklogd 1.3-6 Kernel and system logging daemons. userm:/root# exit exit Script done on Wed Jun 19 13:55:59 1996 Neil. +--------------------------------------------------+----------------------+ | Neil Turton, Assistant computer officer | Snail Mail to: | | Part III mathematics student | Churchill college, | | http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/home/ndt1001/home.html | Cambridge. CB3 0DS. | +--------------------------------------------------+----------------------+ | GCM(M) d H s+:- !g p0>+ !au(-) a- w+ v C+++@ UL++++$(+++) P+ L+++ 3- | | E++ N-(+) K- W--- M-- V po Y+ t-- 5 !j R- G? !tv(-) b+ D+ B? e+++ u(*) | | h-- f !r>+++ n+ y? | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
