-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-08-25 07:39, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> Looks like you have a local (broken) perl installation in > /usr/local that is interfering with the > /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper. > > deb-systemd-helper has a shebang line of #!/usr/bin/env perl, which > is picking up the first perl available in $PATH, which is > /usr/local/bin/perl in your case. > > Remove /usr/local/bin from your PATH and try again. If you have > the PERLLIB or PERL5LIB environment variables set, unset them as > well. > > # export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin Did that. > # unset PERLLIB # unset PERL5LIB Neither of these variables existed, but I unset them anyway. Running apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade still produces the same error messages quoted in my original post. It seems that the downloaded packages are not unpacked or installed. The first package in the list to be unpacked is apt; it seems to be the one which causes the error messages. Since this package cannot be unpacked the whole process is aborted -- none of them is unpacked or installed. On the other hand the DE now appears to be stable. Shutdown however does not seem to work. Selecting turning off the computer from the DE closes the DE and opens tty1 which is ready for a login. Logging in as root and running "shutdown now" has no effect. I have to shut down by holding the start button down for four seconds. Another thing I find strange -- after booting and opening my user only tty1 and tty7 are available. Tty2 through tty6 do not exist. Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAle/VZkACgkQlNlJzOkJmTcODwCdFH8L7Ci6+5/O54yfxqPvOl3A w6YAnjYPxHTDBJMjniN9+NCEdALRgAWg =4RoE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
