(I'm not sure how well Gmail will format things.) I'm adding one more piece of information and I've also answered/commented much further below.
I tried to install a customer .deb file and it threw these types of errors as copied below. I don't know if this adds/clarifies anything. I'm 99% certain this is the chain of events to where I'm at: 1. I changes the sources.list to point to an Internet site (my local Wheezy repo was badly broken - long story) 2. Installed a whole bunch of updates (including the ones showing "not configured" above, and the qmail and snmpd that are showing errors. Ended up with a "dpkg error 1". 3. Tried to install mycustompackage and see the above error. 4. Tried a apt-get install/dist-upgrade to see if it helps any to help me figure out the problem. Also in my chroot: # dpkg -i /tmp/mycustompackage_i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package mycustompackage. (Reading database ... 1834636 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking mycustompackage (from .../mycustompackage_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mycustompackage: mycustompackage depends on libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.43-0+deb7u1); however: Package libmysqlclient18:i386 is not configured yet. mycustompackage depends on libk5crypto3 (>= 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3); however: Package libk5crypto3:i386 is not configured yet. mycustompackage depends on perl-modules (>= 5.14.2-21+deb7u2); however: Package perl-modules is not configured yet. mycustompackage depends on libxml2 (>= 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy4); however: Package libxml2:i386 is not configured yet. mycustompackage depends on libkrb5support0 (>= 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u3); however: Package libkrb5support0:i386 is not configured yet. mycustompackage depends on libcurl3 (>= 7.26.0-1+wheezy17); however: Package libcurl3:i386 is not configured yet. mycustompackage depends on libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1t-1+deb7u1); however: Package libssl1.0.0:i386 is not configured yet. mycustompackage depends on libxml-libxml-perl (>= 2.0001+dfsg-1+deb7u1); however: Package libxml-l dpkg: error processing mycustompackage (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: mycustompackage On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 3:02 PM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 02:54:18PM -0400, Marco Shaw wrote: > > # apt-get install qmail > [...] > > Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) > > Not reassuring. Is this a real computer? Or even a real virtual > machine? If it's some kind of container, well... good luck with that. > > Yes, I think this is related to the chroot. I checked a training video from 2017 and this comes up often. > > Upgrading from qmail version 1.03-38 is not yet supported. > > rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/qmail': Directory not empty > > Sounds like you will need to clean up some stuff by hand. > > I will work on that.
