On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Johann Spies wrote: > > > > What does dpkg print when it tries to upgrade modutils? > > > > The output of dpkg -i was: > > ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/modutils.prerm: /etc/init.d/kerneld: No such file or > > directory ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /etc/init.d/kerneld: No such file or directory > > update-rc.d: warning /etc/init.d/kerneld doesn't exist during rc.d setup. > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/modutils.postinst: /etc/init.d/kerneld: No such file or > > directory > > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 126 > > Strange.. on my box: > > $dpkg -S kerneld > .. > modutils: /sbin/kerneld > modutils: /etc/init.d/kerneld > .. > > Could you check if these files do actually exist on your system? (What is > in your /etc/init.d/kerneld? mine is in fact empty.) > If not, doing "touch /etc/init.d/kerneld" and then retrying "dpkg -i > modutils_2.1.34-5.deb" might solve your problem. > Thanks. This information helped me to solve the problem.
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