Incoming from Michael Prokop:
- s. keeling keeling@spots.ab.ca [20061103 17:26]:
Incoming from Michael Prokop:
s. keeling keeling@spots.ab.ca [20061103 02:15]:
I appear to have lots of broken (according to aptitude) packages.
[snip] What a stupid script...
The price was right.
If you run the command manually it does not return any errors as well, right?
# fc-cache -s -f -v
Correct.
A workaround would be to just disable the fc-cache line in /var/lib/dpkg/info/fontconfig.postinst and rerun "apt-get install" then.
Did so, then ran into other problems, much like the above. I've been trying:
- apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
- apt-get update && apt-get install aptitude ; aptitude update && aptitude upgrade
and I keep coming up against things like this:
------------------------------------------------------ Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... I: mdadm: debconf backend too old, defering configuration... (Reading database ... 15514 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace coreutils 5.93-5 (using .../coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement coreutils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.1.gz', which is the diverted version of `/usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz' dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_5.97-5.1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN9pkgPolicyD2Ev aptitude upgrade 36.49s user 22.64s system 72% cpu 1:21.37 total ------------------------------------------------------
complaining about a different package each time. What's that symbol lookup error from aptitude? I've tried dpkg -i with similar results.