Hello, I have been trying for the last couple of days to do a distro upgrade from the frozen package archive using apt-get. Lots of the packages installed OK but I have run into a problem that has things stuck. I have tried all sorts of things to see if they worked as a work around. i.e. apt-get -f install, apt-get --fix-broken dist-upgrade, dpkg -i <package>
All these methods have failed in the same way leaving many packages reported iU or iF when listing the installed packages with "dpkg --list" The funny thing is when I look at the contents of the .deb package (say for make_-----.deb) and then look to see if the files in that package are installed, well they are. Running the command, i.e. make --version, returns the correct version number and no execution errors. The most current (from frozen) of ldso, libc6, and dpkg are installed OK. I am really stuck here so if anyone has any ideas about this I sure would appreciate knowing about it. Thanks, Tracy Tilton Here is the error message(s) that occurs; ******** BEGIN INCLUDED ERROR MESSAGE TEXT ********************************** bash# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded. 51 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/277kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. IO::Socket::INET: Address already in use at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Web.pm line 50 debconf: failed to initialize Web frontend debconf: falling back to Gtk frontend debconf: failed to initialize Gtk frontend debconf: falling back to Dialog frontend debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend debconf: falling back to Text frontend (Reading database ... 60329 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace make 3.78.1-8 (using .../make_3.78.1-8_i386.deb) ... syntax error at /usr/sbin/install-info line 122, near ") unless" syntax error at /usr/sbin/install-info line 326, near "unless" Execution of /usr/sbin/install-info aborted due to compilation errors. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 255 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... syntax error at /usr/sbin/install-info line 122, near ") unless" syntax error at /usr/sbin/install-info line 326, near "unless" Execution of /usr/sbin/install-info aborted due to compilation errors. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/make_3.78.1-8_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 255 syntax error at /usr/sbin/install-info line 122, near ") unless" syntax error at /usr/sbin/install-info line 326, near "unless" Execution of /usr/sbin/install-info aborted due to compilation errors. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/make_3.78.1-8_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) bash# ***************END INCLUDED ERROR MESSAGE TEXT*****************************
