Yesterday I was using dselect to update my system (unstable packages). It was generating the en_US locales when the machine spontaneously rebooted. After the machine booted back up, debconf's database was corrupt. This prevented dselect from installing the last few packages, which included ssh. I used the fix_db.pl script, which seemed to fix the problem; I was able to update everything but ssh. When "apt-get --reinstall install ssh" didn't work, I tries to purge, then install the package. Needless to say, that didn't work either. Now when I try to install ssh, I get the following output... lukahn:/home/dvogel# apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: ssh-askpass The following NEW packages will be installed: ssh 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/645kB of archives. After unpacking 1507kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 66200 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ssh (from .../ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) There is no /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.preinst (or any ssh script, for that matter) to add "-x" to, so I tried increasing debconf's debugging level... lukahn:/home/dvogel# apt-get install ssh Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: ssh-askpass The following NEW packages will be installed: ssh 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/645kB of archives. After unpacking 1507kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 66200 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ssh (from .../ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) debconf (developer): --> 0 ok (Reading database ... 66200 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ssh (from .../ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb) ... debconf (developer): frontend started debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is ssh debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/config configure debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0 debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0 debconf (developer): <-- SET ssh/use_old_init_script true debconf (developer): --> 10 ssh/use_old_init_script doesn't exist debconf (developer): <-- FSET ssh/use_old_init_script seen true debconf (developer): --> 10 ssh/use_old_init_script doesn't exist debconf (developer): <-- INPUT medium ssh/protocol2_only debconf (developer): --> 10 "ssh/protocol2_only" doesn't exist debconf (developer): <-- INPUT high ssh/privsep_tell debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped debconf (developer): <-- INPUT medium ssh/SUID_client debconf (developer): --> 10 "ssh/SUID_client" doesn't exist debconf (developer): <-- SET ssh/run_sshd true debconf (developer): --> 10 ssh/run_sshd doesn't exist debconf (developer): <-- INPUT medium ssh/run_sshd debconf (developer): --> 10 "ssh/run_sshd" doesn't exist debconf (developer): <-- INPUT low ssh/forward_warning debconf (developer): --> 10 "ssh/forward_warning" doesn't exist debconf (developer): <-- GO debconf (developer): --> 0 ok debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst install debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0 debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0 debconf (developer): <-- GET ssh/use_old_init_script debconf (developer): --> 10 ssh/use_old_init_script doesn't exist dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.6.1p2-5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Anyone on this list know how I might solve this problem? Helpful hints? If you do, be sure to CC me, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Regards, Drew Vogel
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