Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin
Frank McCormick: Andrew Sackville-West: Frank McCormick: I am at wits endabout to wipe the partition I don't think you're there yet... that's a pretty drastic measure. Well I reconsidered:) I googled until I found what I was looking for exactly where apt keeps the info on package state...strangely enough it's in a file called status :) I hesitate to reveal this but what I did was open the file, removed the adobe-flashplayer info..and resaved. Problem gone...aptitude is now happy and will do whatever I ask (except make the coffee). I know this is what would be considered brute force...but in my case it worked. I DO NOT recommend it to anyone for any reasonbut if it works...it works. It doesn't **seem** to have any side effects. Anyway, I can confirm that it worked here, having had the same problem with package python-apt problem gone! :-) BTW, a new entry for python-apt appears to have been entered in /var/lib/dpkg/status; it looks OK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:58:36 +0100 Sjoerd Hiemstra shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote: Frank McCormick: Andrew Sackville-West: Frank McCormick: I am at wits endabout to wipe the partition state...strangely enough it's in a file called status :) I hesitate to reveal this but what I did was open the file, removed the adobe-flashplayer info..and resaved. Problem gone...aptitude is now happy and will do whatever I ask (except make the coffee). I know this is what would be considered brute force...but in my case it worked. I DO NOT recommend it to anyone Anyway, I can confirm that it worked here, having had the same problem with package python-apt problem gone! :-) BTW, a new entry for python-apt appears to have been entered in /var/lib/dpkg/status; it looks OK. It's the first time I've had to do anything this drastic with Debian but it seemed the only way of getting back on track. Glad it worked for you as well. Hope our machines don't blow up :) - -- Frank -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLHC+sAAoJEMEDyLTvrVhjKigIAJp3o+ntU1t6CE6qaEhhvBWz 1SBZaqJ0BLL7X36sFjXTTG0+v+nEfroyr65Qvau6EAoAYyyjj3si6KXbUdu3jpQv jwyF7JQBCQ7JaIE9uxcGm4AzLpPTT/HmKVuRQfocmhajvcbpWtAi7HI4xEYglWoZ 8qPYT+5QyC1bsU2j8bgN42aXZOYuWZFn42yiqBMmo2oTbgAET7FKN9E/JUicMciC eHm4a3B8UV7yYVNhw92gkIOVIO8ir3nq7ICgLYXgNVGHsDTyS/Mqq2KvEa5q/dJK PrAqFoEa4FXoFQo32jikL0LhFz4/nleYY4lTHQ0Jd69SX6rWlcwCJTDfWnzfXpE= =Z+bf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin
Frank McCormick: Sjoerd Hiemstra: Frank McCormick: [...] state...strangely enough it's in a file called status :) I hesitate to reveal this but what I did was open the file, removed the adobe-flashplayer info..and resaved. Problem gone...aptitude is now happy and will do whatever I ask (except make the coffee). I know this is what would be considered brute force...but in my case it worked. I DO NOT recommend it to anyone Anyway, I can confirm that it worked here, having had the same problem with package python-apt problem gone! :-) BTW, a new entry for python-apt appears to have been entered in /var/lib/dpkg/status; it looks OK. It's the first time I've had to do anything this drastic with Debian but it seemed the only way of getting back on track. Glad it worked for you as well. Hope our machines don't blow up :) Previously, the entry in /var/lib/dpkg/status for the package in question had this line: Status: install reinstreq half-configured In the new entry, this line has changed to: Status: install ok installed And that's the only essential difference between the old the new entry. It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a package from that 'half-configured' state. I guess the problem was caused by some accidental hitch during upgrading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin
Sjoerd Hiemstra writes: It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a package from that 'half-configured' state. Dpkg usually can. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:25:08 -0600 John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote: Sjoerd Hiemstra writes: It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a package from that 'half-configured' state. Dpkg usually can. -- John Hasler Unfortunately not in my case anyway - I tried every way to get it to delete or uninstall, including using the --force-all option. Along the way it came up with some bizarre warnings. Aptitude at one point told me it was going to remove unrelated packages such as wbarconf, and would install Iceape along with a bunch of others. I told it to go ahead to see if that might help...but then it complained about the half installed package. It seemed like there was no way around the problem. Maybe dpkg needs a JustDoIt option :) - -- Frank -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLHFO2AAoJEMEDyLTvrVhjg8sIAKhyjbPRWWmWecx9pGb49nP+ 8nxchB5eXSlhQ2Lmch9tm5zugpdbo64FUXVMGZSeYHXFzJ7ssSlRDLIWTIC1jIWG L/QnKB0n9RDdasgiTPuOMtXa4GHfQvyaHSDutorpCqqUlkxJ2szLKjRQTdeBgdry QBisMfBicandgleIuwEyHx6j3PDqx58Ku8DeVdYa2yLq1NbQt7vNTF6cHoEQfXMU mtgD4eXNj6FHEK1zbbLoqAAyYMLaThzDRjKNVREmO2COO+xYvw4kqnl0kshOhQRd MpVBiGOv/R06WQ4cjLTtU7rdq7NhvLLRwhUHjkYnsJfyC2xkw2nUTvFvJgDbNn8= =ykQF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
