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The problem, as Alberto discovered, is that perl is not executable. The
reason for this is basically broken dependancies: libc6 should pre-depend
on perl (since the postinst requires the update-rc.d script), but it
doesn't. Perl does pre-depend on libc6. So apt t
Found a strange thing ...
Cannot run perl scripts:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 24 10:21 /usr/bin/perl ->
perl-5.005
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 493788 Jul 7 21:58 /usr/bin/perl-5.004
-rw--- 1 root root 534844 Aug 19 10:29 /usr/bin/perl-5.
OK Ingo, I'm happy now: I'm not alone in this world!
Thanks Seth,
``apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'' from root prompt
doesn't fix. Any idea of what to do now?
Who at debian.org could be interested on this bug?
Cheers,
Alberto Mau
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 03:05:48AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Drat. Another easy answer shot. :(
>
> See what happens if you ``apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'' from root
> prompt.
>
> If that doesn't fix it, guru time. :)
>
Hi you gurus,
i just got the same problem - daily potato update:
co
Drat. Another easy answer shot. :(
See what happens if you ``apt-get update; apt-get upgrade'' from root
prompt.
If that doesn't fix it, guru time. :)
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:52:03AM +0200, Alberto Maurizi wrote:
>
> Uh, I upgrade from potato to potato every day
> using dsel
Uh, I upgrade from potato to potato every day
using dselect. Don't know about the method dselect
use but it worked well till yesterday.
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Alberto, I am going to guess you are upgrading from slink to potato. I am
> also going
Alberto, I am going to guess you are upgrading from slink to potato. I am
also going to guess you ran "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' rather than
'apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade'.
If I am wrong, tell us as much. :)
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:28:46AM +0200, Alberto Maurizi wrote:
>
>
Here is a selection of them:
Preparing to replace rsh-server 0.10-3 (using .../rsh-server_0.10-4_i386.deb)
...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/rsh-server.prerm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: Permission denied
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the
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