Re: [SOLVED] Re: package fails to install; fails to remove; breaks upgrade of other packages

2008-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-26 11:18, Sven Joachim wrote: > It is, please file a bug report against the anon-proxy package with > severity "serious". The grep call in line 50 of the postinst will fail > if /etc/environment is empty. Thanks I filed http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496640 It's been

Re: [SOLVED] Re: package fails to install; fails to remove; breaks upgrade of other packages

2008-08-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-26 11:18 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > It is, please file a bug report against the anon-proxy package with > severity "serious". The grep call in line 50 of the postinst will fail > if /etc/environment is empty. And the prerm has the same buggy behavior in line 29, I should add. That's

Re: [SOLVED] Re: package fails to install; fails to remove; breaks upgrade of other packages

2008-08-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-26 10:47 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > For what it's worth > > ll /etc/environment > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-08-19 19:47 /etc/environment > > I delete /etc/environment since it is an empty file anyway. After that > it work. It's now also possible to purge/ install it ok. > >

[SOLVED] Re: package fails to install; fails to remove; breaks upgrade of other packages

2008-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-26 09:39, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Try to use "set -x" in the post-installation script and run "dpkg > --configure anon-proxy" again, maybe that will tell you what is going > wrong. The script should be here: /var/lib/dpkg/info/dirmngr.postinst OK. Thanks I did that. It generates this ou

Re: package fails to install; fails to remove; breaks upgrade of other packages

2008-08-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 14:56:50 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On lenny, I tried to install package anon-proxy. Aptitude encountered > the following problems: > > / > [...] > Preconfiguring packages ... > Selecting previously deselected package libxerces-c28. > (Reading database

package fails to install; fails to remove; breaks upgrade of other packages

2008-08-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On lenny, I tried to install package anon-proxy. Aptitude encountered the following problems: / [...] Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package libxerces-c28. (Reading database ... 390218 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libxerces-c28 (fro