reassing 550825 safe-rm thanks Hi there,
I am sorry if my previous bug report was a bit (a lot) "written in panic". I now realize it lacked information. David Kalnischkies wrote: > Hi Amaya, > > >> See #548848 et al. > > I could not find additional helpful information there. > Try apt-get install -f -o APT::Immediate-Configure=0 > See my email to apt bug #548858 for some details about > this option and why it is needed. (note the 5 instead of the 4) It was while running this command that I got more input and realized that it was safe-rm (a perl script that substitutes /usr/bin/rm) that was making all my post-inst scripts to fail. So your answer was truly helpful. I am reassigning it now, as it has nothing to do with apt, dpkg, circular pre-dependencies or such deep, complicated things :) It was just a simple perl script complaining (pasting here for the safe-rm maintainer) about not finding English.pm during the upgrade: ~-r...@io>apt-get install -f -o APT::Immediate-Configure=0 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmpeg3hv libquicktimehv libass3 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: libperl5.10 perl perl-base Suggested packages: perl-doc The following packages will be upgraded: libperl5.10 perl perl-base 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 416 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/5,504kB of archives. After this operation, 160kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Reading package fields... 0%Can't locate English.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10. 0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/bin/rm line 105. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/rm line 105. dpkg-deb: subprocess rm -rf returned error exit status 2 Reading package fields... 33%Can't locate English.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10 .0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/bin/rm line 105. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/rm line 105. dpkg-deb: subprocess rm -rf returned error exit status 2 Reading package fields... 66%Can't locate English.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/bin/rm line 105. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/rm line 105. dpkg-deb: subprocess rm -rf returned error exit status 2 > But you should definitely check what set this situation up and > reassign this bug to it (or close this one and open a new) as your > systemstate was already broken (unmet dependency) and apt doesn't > cause this. Maybe you have installed some packages by hand with dpkg > or a maintainerscript of a package in a previous install run failed > (but i bet on the first option as dpkg is unable to configure it > without other unpacked packages). Thanks for your kind reply, you really hit the spot! -- ยท''`. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, : :' : come sit next to me - Alice Roosevelt Longworth `. `' `- Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org