Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages

2005-06-01 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2005 04:22, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 31 2005, J.F.Gratton wrote: > > I never took any time to delve into the innards of the install system on > > Debian since I never had any problems. Well, tonite is the nite ! :) > > I would suggest that you run fsck on the involved files

Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages

2005-05-31 Thread =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito
On May 31 2005, J.F.Gratton wrote: > I never took any time to delve into the innards of the install system on > Debian since I never had any problems. Well, tonite is the nite ! :) I would suggest that you run fsck on the involved filesystems. It may find other corruptions. I would stop using the

Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages

2005-05-31 Thread J.F.Gratton
Marty, thank you ! I clobbered my clunky version of guile-1.6.postinst with the one you supplied, and voila. I never took any time to delve into the innards of the install system on Debian since I never had any problems. Well, tonite is the nite ! :) Thanks for getting me out of this predicament

Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages

2005-05-31 Thread Marty
J.F.Gratton wrote: On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 21:24 -0400, Marty wrote: J.F.Gratton wrote: [snip snip] > Setting up guile-1.6 (1.6.7-1) ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec > format error > dpkg: error processing guile-1.6 (--configure): > subprocess post-install

Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages

2005-05-31 Thread J.F.Gratton
... I'm quite dumb.. forgot to include the so-called guile-1.6.postinst sorry :) here it is : minimum. . This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads some information like device labels and mount options from hal and passes them to pmount. Install the package "hal"

Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages

2005-05-31 Thread J.F.Gratton
On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 21:24 -0400, Marty wrote: > J.F.Gratton wrote: > [snip snip] > > Setting up guile-1.6 (1.6.7-1) ... > > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec > > format error > > dpkg: error processing guile-1.6 (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation sc

Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages

2005-05-31 Thread Marty
J.F.Gratton wrote: Hi all, I've never been good to fix packages that break down at install (I'm not blaming maintainers for the packages, btw... I guess I'm responsible for the mess here). Here's what happened : - helsinki:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Depe