Hi everyone:
I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems to
be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base. I've
tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including the -f switch with no joy.
Below is a typical example:
root@mycomputer:/home/gary# aptitude purge doc-base
The following packages will be REMOVED:
doc-base{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 504 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
(Reading database ... 297009 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing doc-base ...
cannot find install-docs on path
dpkg: error processing doc-base (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while
processing:
doc-base
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
root@mycomputer:/home/gary#
I have tried cleaning and reloading the archives. That didn't help. The
whole dpkg process seems to be hung up at this point. If I try to
process any other packages, the installation process always returns to
some variation of the above. The package seems to be partially
installed. The C flag is set in aptitude. A not configured error is
sometime displayed. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Gary R.
