On 11/27/07 1:11 PM, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Yep, I tried that and got this: >> >>> Removing xml-sax-pm586 ... >>> /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-sax-pm586.prerm: line 13: 26902 Bus >>> error /sw/sbin/update-perl586-sax-parsers --remove >>> XML::SAX::PurePerl /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing xml-sax-pm586 >>> (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit >>> status 138 >> >>> Does that indicate a separate problem? Thanks again. >> >>> Laine >> >> >> Ouch. That looks like some kind of chicken-and-the-egg thing, >> since the command that's throwing a bus error is from xml-sax-pm586 >> itself. >> > > See if (re)moving /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-sax-pm586.prerm lets you > remove the package. OK, that made Fink happy to remove it, but then when I ran sudo apt-get -f install, I got Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up xml-sax-pm586 (0.15-2) ... /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-sax-pm586.postinst: line 10: 658 Bus error /sw/sbin/update-perl586-sax-parsers --add XML::SAX::PurePerl So, because your above suggestion worked out so well, I removed the files I found whose names began with "xml-sax" and contained "pm586" in "/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info". Now sudo apt-get -f install seems to run with the expected results. Was that a bad thing to do? I have a Time Machine backup, should you suggest I put them back. Thanks. Laine ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users