Re: help with dpkg --configure error message

From: Adam Garside (adam.garside_at_cpcc.edu)
Date: 07/23/03

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    On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:40:09PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
    > I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by poking
    > about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a tedious
    > message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem?
    >
    > At the moment I get this:
    > stoneboat:/etc/php4/apache# dpkg --configure proftpd
    > Setting up proftpd (1.2.4+1.2.5rc1-5woody2) ...
    > dpkg: error processing proftpd (--configure):
    > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
    > Errors were encountered while processing:
    > proftpd
    > stoneboat:/etc/php4/apache#
    >
    > After some poking about I found that the package scripts are stored in
    > /var/lib/dpkg/info but I can't tell which bit of which script is going wrong.

    subprocess post-installation script == /var/lib/dpkg/info/<pkg>.postinst

    >
    > How do I get some debug info.
    >
    > In fact I got proftpd working anyway so I really just want this complaint to
    > go away (leaving the package database in a sensible state).

    you can get the package to install by putting:

    exit 0

    as the first command in the file. Please make sure to manually perform
    all that the inst script was trying to do.

    asg 

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