On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:42:03AM -0500, Tomislav Renic wrote: > > Here's a problem for you guys... > > I tried apt-get update; upgrade this morning on a potato system, and when it > came time to install the libc6 package, it exited with an error, telling me > that the error came from the postinst script. Apparently suidregister > returned "permission denied". Here's a copy of the output: > > pc-emery3:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i libc6_2.1.2-4.deb > (Reading database ... 40503 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.2-4 (using libc6_2.1.2-4.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libc6 ... > Setting up libc6 (2.1.2-4) ... > Current default timezone: 'Canada/Central'. > Local time is now: Mon Sep 27 09:34:44 CDT 1999. > Universal Time is now: Mon Sep 27 14:34:44 UTC 1999. > Run `tzconfig' if you wish to change it. > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: /usr/sbin/suidregister: Permission > denied > dpkg: error processing libc6 (--install): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > libc6 > > > This is after trying to install the package just using dpkg after apt-get > failed on me. > > Any ideas? Since this happened, my machine has been pretty unusable... > > Thanks for the help, and please reply to this address as I only subscribe to > the digest of debian-user
You got bit by a bug in dpkg. Simply chmod 755 /usr/bin/perl* and then start apt-get again. This bug is fixed in the latest dpkg, so it shouldn't happen again. Ben
