On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:25:50PM -0600, Dave Bartmess wrote: > Something else I noticed, noted below, is that it doesn't seem to think > debconf is installed... I've searched the entire drive system, and can't > find an executable "debconf" file. > $ sudo apt-get install libc6 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > libdb1-compat > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libc6 > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/3381kB of archives. After unpacking 13.0MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > ************************* Questionable response! > E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? > ************************* > (Reading database ... 19 files and directories currently installed.) ^------------------------------------------^
I think you should run fsck on the partition where /var is located. Also, check contents of /var/lib/dpkg/status and the files in /var/lib/dpkg/info. If /var/lib/dpkg/status is corrupted, you may still be able to recover by using one of the backups in /var/backups. > Removing libdb1-compat ... > dpkg - warning: while removing libdb1-compat, directory `/usr/share/doc' > not empty so not removed. > dpkg - warning: while removing libdb1-compat, directory `/usr/share' not > empty so not removed. > dpkg - warning: while removing libdb1-compat, unable to remove directory > `/usr': Device or resource busy - directory may be a mount point ? > dpkg - warning: while removing libdb1-compat, directory `/lib' not empty > so not removed. > dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--remove): > cannot remove `/.': Invalid argument > Errors were encountered while processing: > libdb1-compat > localepurge: checking for new locale files ... > localepurge: processing locale files ... > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 06:36, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:33:20AM -0600, Dave Bartmess wrote: > > > I believe this libdb1-compat HAS been removed, but how do I get past > > > this? I can't get anything to upgrade at this point, because it > > > continually errors out. > > > > I've asked you a question to try to narrow things down twice now ... > > > > > -- Jerome
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