Thanks for the help! Sorry for the delay, I've only had time to look
into this recently.
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:50:05PM -0400, John Parejko wrote:
Hello. I've just recently settled on stable, from sarge-testing, and
Hi John,
If I understand what you said:
you were running 'testing' and now you are running 'stable'? This would
be the case if you source.list refers to 'sarge'.
That is correct.
this error:
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xfs-xtt is broken or not fully installed
So I tried to remove it with:
$ apt-get -V -q -f remove xfs-xtt
Which produced this error:
Removing xfs-xtt ...
dpkg (subpproocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error
I would examine /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfs?????.prerm (check spelling for
correct script) and either find the error and find a way to fix what the
script is bombing on OR (since I suggest removing xfs-xtt) putting
'exit 0' at the top of the script to disable it. And the then remove the
package.
Ok, I looked at them, but they were garbled. It turns out that
xfs-xtt.* are all file type "data" -- "file xfs-xtt.*" -- and not
readable. 64 files total in /var/lib/dpkg/info are also type data,
according to
file * | grep -c " data"
and these are spread cross a seemingly random range of programs. I
think this is probably a bad thing, and don't know how it would have
happened. All the files in this directory should be plaintext shell
files or just contain md5-sums, right?
Ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks again
John
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Department of Physics and Astronomy
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
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