Hi Jonathan,
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >>> 20/0/0 r...@acromantula:pts/3 23:05:57 [~] # dpkg-reconfigure dash
> >>> Removing 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash'
> >>> Adding 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by bash'
> >>> Removing 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to
> >>> /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash'
> >>> Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to
> >>> /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by bash'
> >>> 21/0/0 r...@acromantula:pts/3 23:06:10 [~] #
> >>> [...]
> >>> 26/0/0 r...@acromantula:pts/3 23:06:46 [~] # dpkg-reconfigure dash
> >>> dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
> >>> when removing `diversion of /bin/sh by dash'
> >>> found `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by bash'
> >>> 27/2/0 r...@acromantula:pts/3 23:06:51 [~] #
>
> Odd. Could you provide the output of
>
> dpkg-divert --list /bin/sh /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz
1/0/0 r...@acromantula:pts/3 17:06:44 [~] # dpkg-divert --list /bin/sh
/usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz
diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz
by bash
diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by bash
> readlink /bin/sh
2/0/0 r...@acromantula:pts/3 17:07:04 [~] # readlink /bin/sh
bash
> debconf-show dash
3/0/0 r...@acromantula:pts/3 17:07:59 [~] # debconf-show dash
* dash/sh: false
> Have you resolved the problem locally, or does "dpkg-reconfigure dash"
> still give the same message?
I still have bash as /bin/sh on that system and trying to reconfigure
dash to be /bin/sh again, still causes this problem:
4/0/0 r...@acromantula:pts/3 17:08:08 [~] # dpkg-reconfigure dash
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
when removing `diversion of /bin/sh by dash'
found `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by bash'
HTH.
Regards, Axel
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