Unfortunately I cannot do anything in dpkg other than get the help listings. All I get is the segmentation faults.
Ben Collins wrote: > 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