If /usr/bin/logger has always been an ELF executable I guess my version had
been locally modified as you presume.
Unfortunately I don't know how and why it was modified.
What's sure is that my Ubuntu 8.04 has packages from other unofficial sources.
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Try to install mysql-server and get
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mysql-server
Release: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
Package: mysql-server, 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4
Expected: usual installation process
Command run: sudo apt-get install mysql-server
What happened instead:
The installation hangs and hundreds of identical messages
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38696053/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38696055/DpkgTerminalLog.gz
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Try to install mysql-server and get hundreds of blocking 'logger: [-x] [-p
log_facility] [-t
I finally found waht the problem is:
the script '/usr/bin/logger'. In a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation
this is actually an ELF executable. But on my old Ubuntu 8.04 (but
regularly updated) OS is was a shell script.
I simply inserted on the first line the command 'exit' to avoid the
script to