On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:49:18 +0100 "Dan H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I just tried installing Debian unstable on an extra disk I had kicking > around (I've been running stable for several years without any > trouble). > > This is what I did: I fetched the etch installer (there seems to be no > dedicated "unstable" installer) and installed a minimal barebones > system (bailed right out of tasksel without checking anything). > Booted into this system, and changed the relevant lines > in /etc/apt/sources.list from "etch" to "unstable". I also deleted > the CD-ROM sources (which is testing) as well as the security ones > (there being no explicit security stuff for unstable). > > Then I did "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade". > > The system worked for a while; I cant't really recall what happened, > and threw a lot of errors. The "update" bit works fine, but whenever > I run "apt-get upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade", I get this: > > ------------------------------- > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be upgraded: > adduser bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox console-common console-data > coreutils cron debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dmidecode dpkg > dselect gcc-4.1-base gzip initscripts installation-report > klibc-utils klogd libacl1 libattr1 libc6 libc6-i686 libdevmapper1.02 > libgcc1 libgpg-error0 libklibc libnewt0.52 libreadline5 libsepol1 > libstdc++6 libusb-0.1-4 libvolume-id0 libwrap0 > linux-image-2.6.18-3-486 locales lsb-base module-init-tools mount > nano netbase openbsd-inetd readline-common sysklogd sysv-rc sysvinit > sysvinit-utils tasksel tasksel-data tcpd tzdata udev util-linux > vim-common vim-tiny whiptail Preconfiguring packages ... > dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success > dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success > dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success > dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success > dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success > dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success > 57 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/39.5MB of archives. > After unpacking 3084kB of additional disk space will be used. > dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) > ------------------------------- > > And the system is left in a completely unusable state. I couldn't even > edit the apt sources back to "etch" because I couldn't get an editor: > > # vi /etc/apt/sources.list > -bash: /usr/bin/vi: no such file or directory. > > So what can I do now? > > Thanks, > --Dan > > The first rule of running unstable: learn to love Google. A search on the error message you quoted above would have suggested the following. Move the file /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg temporarily to another location. Can you upgrade now? -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
