Uwe Dippel wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:43 -0400, Marty wrote:
A likely fix is to purge and reinstall the affected python packages.
How !?!
The circular effect sets in.
Somehow I must consider this a bug in the whole concept of Debian !?
By running dpkg manually, i.e: "dpkg -P "
Alt
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:43 -0400, Marty wrote:
> # find /var/lib/dpkg/info/ |xargs grep '\.py' |grep -v python
> []
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst:if which $PYTHON >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -e
> /usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py ]; then
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst: $PYTHON
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:43 -0400, Marty wrote:
> A likely fix is to purge and reinstall the affected python packages.
How !?!
The circular effect sets in.
Somehow I must consider this a bug in the whole concept of Debian !?
> Alternatively it may be possible to just comment out this line for
>
Uwe Dippel wrote:
I cannot; meaning that ? what ? Is python broken ?
If yes, how to reinstall it without using apt / dpkg (which cannot be
used, because debconf is broken - the circular effect ! ) ??
FWIW I found where dpkg is calling the python scripts:
# find /var/lib/dpkg/info/ |xargs grep
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:13:53 -0400, Marty wrote:
> Marty wrote:
>
>> Here's what I get on my sarge system:
>>
>> $ apt-cache rdepends debconf |grep python
>>python2.3-popy
>>python2.2-popy
>>python2.1-popy
>>libapache2-mod-python2.3
>>libapache2-mod-python2.2
>
> Sorry, that
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:13:53 -0400, Marty wrote:
> Sorry, that should be "depends," and python doesn't
> appear, so I don't know where python is being called,
> but it still probably has some corrupted files.
Maybe it *is* a problem of Python ?
(Though I have no clue where Python is called)
I di
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 01:59:49 -0400, Marty wrote:
>> It seems as of now and for me, that debconf is the problem. Once it is
>> screwed, there seems to be no way out; you can't install / upgrade
>> anything without; you can't reinstall it; a circular problem ?
> Some things I meant to add to my fir
Uwe Dippel wrote:
It seems as of now and for me, that debconf is the problem. Once it is
screwed, there seems to be no way out; you can't install / upgrade
anything without; you can't reinstall it; a circular problem ?
But the upside (if there is one) is that may be the only package you
have t
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:06:59 -0400, Marty wrote:
>
>> As long as debconf fails and cannot be reinstalled, I'm afraid, there
>> won't be any solution (had started another thread, but now I think it is
>> the same problem).
>
> There is always a solution if you have a running system.
This is what
Marty wrote:
Here's what I get on my sarge system:
$ apt-cache rdepends debconf |grep python
python2.3-popy
python2.2-popy
python2.1-popy
libapache2-mod-python2.3
libapache2-mod-python2.2
Sorry, that should be "depends," and python doesn't
appear, so I don't know where python i
Uwe Dippel wrote:
Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 156, in ?
exit_status = not main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall.py", line 146, in main
force, rx, quiet):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/compileall
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:57:15 -0700, James Vahn wrote:
> Uwe Dippel wrote:
>> Overall, this is less than satisfactory; there are surely more problems,
>> and I would be disappointed if apt / dpkg could not check the integrity of
>> their respective packages; and worse: missed any 'repair'.
>
> Hav
Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Overall, this is less than satisfactory; there are surely more problems,
> and I would be disappointed if apt / dpkg could not check the integrity of
> their respective packages; and worse: missed any 'repair'.
Have you tried "debsums -s" ? It is unfortunate that not all packa
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:17:57 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:08:05 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote:
>
>> What about `apt-get install --reinstall'
>
> Tried, been there:
>
> # apt-get install --reinstall
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:08:05 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote:
> What about `apt-get install --reinstall'
Tried, been there:
# apt-get install --reinstall
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Actually, I tried a
Uwe Dippel wrote:
Last night at boot the system checked (after 30 boots or so) my /usr
partition. It dropped me to console; I did the suggested fsck /dev/hda8.
After the lengthy check it came up; but with some errors; like screwed up
XFCE configuration (some apps missing); some screwed up fonts;
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