On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:40:09PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by poking > about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a tedious > message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem? > > At the moment I get this: > stoneboat:/etc/php4/apache# dpkg --configure proftpd > Setting up proftpd (1.2.4+1.2.5rc1-5woody2) ... > dpkg: error processing proftpd (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > Errors were encountered while processing: > proftpd > stoneboat:/etc/php4/apache# > > After some poking about I found that the package scripts are stored in > /var/lib/dpkg/info but I can't tell which bit of which script is going wrong.
subprocess post-installation script == /var/lib/dpkg/info/<pkg>.postinst > > How do I get some debug info. > > In fact I got proftpd working anyway so I really just want this complaint to > go away (leaving the package database in a sensible state). you can get the package to install by putting: exit 0 as the first command in the file. Please make sure to manually perform all that the inst script was trying to do. asg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
