Colin Watson wrote: > > Vitux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just > >crapped out?) > >Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go > >installing stuff. > >Now, I get "bash: dselect: command not found". > >Ok, maybe there's some path been lost: > >~#whereis dselect > >Dselect: /usr/bin/dselect > >Let's try it, then: > >~#/usr/bin/dselect > >bash: usr/bin/dselect: Input/output error > > It sounds like something dselect's calling is dying, perhaps - or > alternatively you might have a disk problem. Could you run 'strace > dselect' or 'strace /usr/bin/dselect' as root and post at least the end > of the log that results, please? Thanks, will try. What exactly is strace (s-trace?)? > > If you don't have the strace package (you should, as it's standard), > then download it manually and 'dpkg -i' the package file. > > >The really weird part is, I've used it just today to install the > >mach64-xserver from which I'm typing this?! Along with mach64 (which I > >chose to install) potato wanted to install lots of stuff I'm not using, > >including emacs, xemacs, and a german dictionary (I don't even speak > >german). > > emacs20 is standard; xemacs21 may be getting pulled in by something. The > German dictionary is odd - perhaps you're getting slightly confused by > dselect here. ispell (a standard package) recommends ispell-dictionary, > and igerman/ingerman happen to provide this. When you install ispell, > dselect's dependency resolution screen will pop up a list of all the > available packages providing ispell-dictionary, with the idea that you > choose one of them. Once you get used to it, the lower pane that > provides descriptions of the current problems - and of the packages, > too, if you hit 'i' - can be very helpful. Hmmm, I see what you mean. I didn't <choose> to install ispell, but then that could be pulled in by something else... > > >I chose not to install most of this, except for some gnomelibs and a > >few other libs, which I figured might be important. > > Did you have to override dselect in its ideas about dependencies? If so, > you might have removed or failed to install something important ... you > didn't uninstall libstdc++2.10 or any of the ncurses stuff, did you? Nope, I didn't override it. libstc and ncurses still here (need it for making kernels ;-). > > If that's the problem, you'll likely be able to recover it with plain > dpkg, though it might take a bit of to-and-froing on this mailing list. > :) Thanks for your help! Regards Vitux
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