Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread David L. Anselmi
David L. Anselmi wrote: I'm getting set to attempt recovery by using the Debian Live rescue CD. I'll use its tools to finish installing packages (dpkg --root or Dir::RootDir for aptitude). So dpkg and aptitude don't work so well from a rescue disk for this. They chroot before running the post-

Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread David L. Anselmi
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:21:07AM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote: Here is the output from aptitude around the first failure: Preparing to replace perl 5.10.0-18 (using .../perl_5.10.0-19_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl ... Preparing to replace perl-base 5.10.0-18

Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:21:07AM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade a testing machine but the upgrade failed around > perl-base. Now any dpkg commands I try seem to fail because > /usr/bin/perl segfaults. > > How can I fix perl if I can't use dpkg? > > Here is the output