On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: > In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I > run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault. > > I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my > system. > > Does anyone have an idea how I can get dpkg working again at least or at > most make dselect work. (I know they work together) > > I have a committed a cardinal sin in that I didn't write down the > package that started the problem but I have a sneaking suspicion it was > the dpkg update.
Will dpkg atleast give you "dpkg -l <pkg>" ourput? If so can you see which versions of dpkg and libc6 you have on your system and in what state? # dpkg -l libc6 dpkg This would help a lot. Perhaps you got caught in between on what was needed for the libc6 2.0 -> 2.1 upgrade. Ben