I recently took over a Debian system whose previous owner had been using "testing" apt-get sources. For reasons that now make no sense even to me I switched to "unstable" sources I had been using (without any apparent problems) on my laptop for a year.
So - apt-get upgrade failed ------------ Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up libpam-runtime (0.76-18) ... dpkg: error processing libpam-runtime (--configure): subprocess post-installation scritp returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: libpam-runtime I'm now pointing to "testing" again but getting the same result. I tried running dpkg -i libpam-runtime.. from the command line and got the same result. # apt-get dist-upgrade does the same. What could I do to elucidate the actual error message (from post-installation script) itself? # dpkg -l libpam-runtime\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=========================-=========================-================================================================== iF libpam-runtime 0.76-18 Runtime support for the PAM library There's not much space in /var - 15Meg I realise it's unlikely that anyone can answer such an unspecified question, but maybe someone has an idea? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
