On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:01:56 +1000, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Hope this is the right place - new to debian (and loving it) so please > bare with me. > > I've just tried to update the sendmail package on my system (I saw the > security notice) but had a few problems. After a bit of fiddling > (basically involving apt-get remove --purge sendmail) I tried again and > got the following error messages: >
[...] > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > The drama seems to be obvious in the first few lines, but I can't work > out what the home dir referred to is? My system had mysteriously (to > me) gained a home/defang directory. I tried deleting this but that > didn't do the trick (I got the above error messages, but without the 2nd > and 3rd lines). > > Any ideas greatly appreciated! > Is this a Woody system? Have you looked in the Debian BTS (bug tracking system) if this is a known problem/bug? The first thing to try is to "dpkg --configure --pending" (man dpkg for the details) and then you can try to fix your system with "apt-get -f install" or manually installing sendmail. If this don't woks, you need to increase the dpkg verbosity level to look where the problem is... Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]