I had installed the essential files seperatly as per the instructions in libc6 HOWTO. I hope it was safe to then use dpkg-ftp (which stopped seg faulting after I removed a dangling ncurses sym link) to try to ease the upgrade of other packages, because this is what I tried to do. Many packages reported dependency problems, but I expected to get rid of (most) of them by running the installation procedure several times (is this still the strategy of choice?). However, when I tried to bring ppp up again, I got errors saying something about a pam object file not being available. I nipped off to a semi-complete archieve of packages I have and started installing things that matched *pam*. Two packages seem to be mutually dependent on each other in a way that allows neither to be configured:
# find . -name "*pam*" -print ./admin/libpam0g-util_0.57b-0.deb ./devel/libpam-doc_0.57b-0.deb ./devel/libpam0g-dbg_0.57b-0.deb ./devel/libpam0g-dev_0.57b-0.deb ./libs/libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb ./mail/spamdb_1.1.deb ./mail/spamfilter_1.0-1.deb ./net/ppp-pam_2.3.3-2.deb ./oldlibs/libpam0-altdev_0.57b-0.deb ./oldlibs/libpam0-altutil_0.57b-0.deb ./oldlibs/libpam0_0.57b-0.deb # cd libs # dpkg --install libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb (Reading database ... 31158 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libpam0g 0.57b-0 (using libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libpam0g ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpam0g: libpam0g depends on libpam0g-util (>= 0.57b-0); however: Package libpam0g-util is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libpam0g # cd ../admin # dpkg --install libpam0g-util_0.57b-0.deb (Reading database ... 31158 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libpam0g-util 0.57b-0 (using libpam0g-util_0.57b-0.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libpam0g-util ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpam0g-util: libpam0g-util depends on libpam0g (>= 0.57b-0); however: Package libpam0g is not configured yet. libpam0g-util depends on libpwdb0g; however: Package libpwdb0g is not installed. dpkg: error processing libpam0g-util (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libpam0g-util I can't repeat the error I first got from ppp, since the installation of these unconfigured packages has changed: $ pon /usr/sbin/pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: Permission denied Is this the expected behavior? If so, what is the accepted way to tell these packages to configure themselves, or each other, or whatever? Thanks. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
