On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. >> >> "aptitude upgrade" ends with >> >> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... >> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 >> /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 164: mktemp: command not found >> update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 >> dpkg: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 >> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' >> to correct the problem. >> >> but running dpkg --configure -a results in the sam error. >> >> Besides it's strange that mktem should not be installed already, but >> >> aptitude show mktemp >> >> says, no, it's not installed. But if I do try to install it: >> >> deneb:~# apt-get install mktemp >> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' >> to correct the problem. >> >> So it seems I'm stuck in a vicious circle. > > Did you try downloading mktemp package with wget/curl or "apt-get -d > ..." and use dpkg to install with some -f options in man pages?
No I didn't, but I would have if the thought had occurred to me. What made you think of it? I don't know how to get the deb manually, but I managed to compile from source. And then 'dpkg -i' worked without any coaxing. And then 'dpkg --configure -a' ran without complaint (OK it choked on vim). Thank you. > >> Can this circle be broken? > > Unless you did something funny, this is bug worth reporting. I almost surely did. But it bothers me the mktemp pkg would vanish... > > Osamu > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org