On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:16:28AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >Your debconf database is broken in some exciting way. Backing up and
> >moving aside /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and
> >/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat may help, although Joey may have some
> >more cunning soluti
Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was
halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install
or uninstall, such as:
Setting up man-db (2.3.20-13) ...
dpkg: error proce
Rogério Brito wrote:
On Mar 18 2002, Kent West wrote:
This did allow me to purge the offending packages. However, it has not
solved the problem.
(...)
The problem seems to be with the packaging infra-structure.
Can you reinstall dpkg, apt, debconf, apt-utils etc? This
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> This problem goes back about 4 months; I've posted a few times and
> gotten some valuable responses, but nothing that's helped.
>
> My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was
> halted mid-stream. Ever since the
On Mar 18 2002, Kent West wrote:
> This did allow me to purge the offending packages. However, it has not
> solved the problem.
(...)
The problem seems to be with the packaging infra-structure.
Can you reinstall dpkg, apt, debconf, apt-utils etc? This
might perhaps help yo
Update: I'm confident the problem is not in the individual packages that
won't install/uninstall. The problem must be in dpkg/debconf/apt/etc.
Kent West wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to
do, since that's the solution in th
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to
do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed
to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me
fix this, it's the only solution I have left.
cd /v
>
> I'm down to looking at a rebuild, which I am really, really loathe to
> do, since that's the solution in the Microsoft world and isn't supposed
> to be the solution for Linux, but unless one of you gurus can help me
> fix this, it's the only solution I have left.
>
cd /var/lib/dpkg/info.
This problem goes back about 4 months; I've posted a few times and
gotten some valuable responses, but nothing that's helped.
My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was
halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install
or uninstall, such as:
Sett
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