Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am following unstable and currently have a problem with >9menu_1.4-10_i386.deb. It will neither upgrade with apt nor allow itself >to be removed with either apt or dpkg. > >I get this message: > >dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: Exec format >error >dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Hmm. You need to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/9menu.prerm somehow. The copy in the Debian archive looks like this: if [ \( "$1" = "upgrade" -o "$1" = "remove" \) -a -L /usr/doc/9menu ]; then rm -f /usr/doc/9menu fi I think you need to put a line reading '#! /bin/sh' at the start of that; if that works, then a bug needs to be filed against 9menu (probably with severity 'important'). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]