(please cc to me, i follow this mailing list via the archives) hi,
whilst upgrading my frozen-box, i got following error. chesterfield:/etc/apt# apt-get install libc6 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, libc6 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up libc6 (2.1.3-2) ... Current default timezone: 'Europe/Brussels'. Local time is now: Tue Feb 15 21:20:35 CET 2000. Universal Time is now: Tue Feb 15 20:20:35 UTC 2000. Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it. /etc/init.d/devpts.sh: line 63: syntax error: unexpected end of file dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev: libc6-dev depends on libc6 (= 2.1.3-2); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 libc6-dev E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) however, reading http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0002/msg01014.html gave me an excellent solution to this but... why isnt this corrected? it's the 21th today, that message was posted the 8th, and i still got that error (before changing that file of course). -- Bruno Van de Casteele [EMAIL PROTECTED] N.P. Puam [ ICQ#: CA957F ] Homepage: http://puam.cjb.net/ SWRP: http://swrp.cjb.net/ Matrix-RPG: http://members.xoom.com/matrixrpg/ "A species stumped by an intractable problem does not merely cease to compute. It ceases to exist." Seth Lloyd -- Bruno Van de Casteele [EMAIL PROTECTED] N.P. Puam [ ICQ#: CA957F ] Homepage: http://puam.cjb.net/ SWRP: http://swrp.cjb.net/ Matrix-RPG: http://members.xoom.com/matrixrpg/ "The common behaviour of mankind is the system of references by means of which we interpret an unknown language." Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, ยง206
