Re: Problem w/apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-10-10 Thread Lindsay Allen
On 8 Oct 1999, David Coe wrote: > "Stephen R. Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to upgrade a fresh slink base-install to potato. I've upgraded > > apt (0.3.7slink0), edited sources.list, did apt-get update, and apt-get > > dist-upgrade. (I've done all this from scratch 3 times -

Re: Problem w/apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-10-08 Thread David Coe
"Stephen R. Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found the problem. I happened to log in as a normal user on another vt, > and had a stack of mail from cron complaining about /bin/sh not existing. > Created the symlink to /bin/bash, and everything worked fine. > > How did this happen? (CCing th

Re: Problem w/apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-10-08 Thread David Coe
"Stephen R. Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to upgrade a fresh slink base-install to potato. I've upgraded > apt (0.3.7slink0), edited sources.list, did apt-get update, and apt-get > dist-upgrade. (I've done all this from scratch 3 times - it's repeatable). > > I get the following

Re: Problem w/apt-get dist-upgrade

1999-10-08 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Stephen R. Gore wrote: > I get the following error: > > E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Pre-Invoke 'mount -o remount,rw /usr' > > Also, if I try dpkg --configure -a: > > Setting up bsdutils (2.9w-3.1) ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file > or direc