On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:57:15 -0700, James Vahn wrote: > Uwe Dippel wrote: >> Overall, this is less than satisfactory; there are surely more problems, >> and I would be disappointed if apt / dpkg could not check the integrity of >> their respective packages; and worse: missed any 'repair'. > > Have you tried "debsums -s" ? It is unfortunate that not all packages > contain the required md5sums, but still, debsums is a very useful tool > and will ease your worries considerably. It is able to generate md5sums > if the debs are available - simple instructions how to do this are in the > manpage.
# locate debsums d400:/home/udippel# apt-get install debsums Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: debsums 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 21.0kB of archives. After unpacking 65.5kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp://mirror.averse.net sarge/main debsums 2.0.16 [21.0kB] Fetched 21.0kB in 1s (12.4kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package debsums. (Reading database ... 152129 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking debsums (from .../debsums_2.0.16_all.deb) ... Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 156, in ? exit_status = not main() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 146, in main force, rx, quiet): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 83, in compile_dir if not compile_dir(fullname, maxlevels - 1, dfile, force, rx, quiet): File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 68, in compile_dir except py_compile.PyCompileError,err: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'PyCompileError' dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debconf-utils: debconf-utils depends on debconf (>= 1.3.20); however: Package debconf is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debconf-utils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debhelper: debhelper depends on debconf-utils (>= 1.1.1); however: Package debconf-utils is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debhelper (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alien: alien depends on debhelper (>= 3); however: Package debhelper is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing alien (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debsums: debsums depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however: Package debconf is not configured yet. Package debconf-2.0 is not installed. Package debconf which provides debconf-2.0 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debsums (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: debconf debconf-utils debhelper alien debsums E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) As long as debconf fails and cannot be reinstalled, I'm afraid, there won't be any solution (had started another thread, but now I think it is the same problem). Is there really no solution but re-install ?? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
