Team: I'm at a loss about what is causing these, or how to fix it . .
It's a Debian Sparc Stable system, Sparc 20 with 256 mb of RAM. ranum:/home/madmac# ps Signal 4 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.7). Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ranum:/home/madmac# ps -elf Illegal instruction ranum:/home/madmac# ps Illegal instruction ranum:/home/madmac# This all started when I was about 1/2 way through a dist-upgrade, when dpkg started spitting out errors with "Illegal Instructions" during install or conf stages. apt-get update completes fine, but running apt-get dist-upgrade to complete the uncompleted installs produces: ranum:/home/madmac# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 11 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1797kB/3368kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main libssl0.9.7 0.9.7c-1 [1797kB] Fetched 1797kB in 31s (56.3kB/s) (Reading database ... 18534 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ssh 1:3.4p1-1 (using .../ssh_1%3a3.4p1-1.woody.3_sparc.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.4p1-1.woody.3_sparc.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script killed by signal (Illegal instruction) Preparing to replace xlibmesa3 4.1.0-16 (using .../xlibmesa3_4.1.0-16woody1_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibmesa3 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3_4.1.0-16woody1_sparc.deb (--unpack): dpkg: warning - old post-removal script killed by signal (Illegal instruction) dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script killed by signal (Illegal instruction) Preparing to replace libssl0.9.7 0.9.7b-2 (using .../libssl0.9.7_0.9.7c-1_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libssl0.9.7 ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a3.4p1-1.woody.3_sparc.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3_4.1.0-16woody1_sparc.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) mutt runs fine, as does man. It seems that something (a library file??) is corrupted, and generating these illegal instructions. But how do I figure out what, and where would I get the replacement? TIA madmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]