On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Russell Jones wrote: > On 9/26/2014 6:43 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > >On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Russell Jones wrote: > >>I've seen several posts about this Bash upgrade issue, but no real > >>answers on how to get past it. Any assistance would be appreciated, > >>thank you! > >This looks like the diversions for /bin/sh got removed or otherwise > >improperly modified at some point in time. > > > >dpkg-divert --list '/bin/sh*'; > > > >will show you what the diversions are. > > > >You should have a diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash or by > >bash (depending on which of them you want to be the default shell). > > > >If the diversion doesn't exist, then you probably want to run the > >following (for dash to be the default shell) > > > >dpkg-divert --package dash --divert /bin/sh.distrib --add /bin/sh; > >dpkg-divert --package dash --divert /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz \ > > --add /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz; > > > >or similar. > > > >In theory, running /var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.preinst; should also do this > >for you.
> It looks like the diversion does exist, so doesn't look like that's > the issue: > > local diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib This is wrong; this is a local diversion, not a diversion by dash or bash, so you're going to end up diverting both dash and bash to /bin/sh.distrib, which will fail. Remove the local diversion, and try rerunning the dash.preinst. [I'm not sure why you have a local diversion; that's basically not going to work at all.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com If god is always watching over us who's driving? -- a softer world #487 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=487 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140929235400.gh14...@rzlab.ucr.edu
