If you dist-upgraded yesterday you might have got a big grub snafu hence no boot. I had to use a USB stick install image in Rescue mode to dist-upgrade again today (inc. new versions of grub-common and grub-pc) and in same Rescue session rewrite GRUB on the MBR. HTH Norv
> do you has tried to reinstall bash? perhaps force reinstall? On Sat, Jun > 19, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Brian Morris < > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]> wrote: > I > have got this thing bad, it blocked my upgrades completely in sid, I > > tried to remove dash and i got bash removed instead, i got into a > chroot > via rescue mode with the installer and with placing emergency > copies of > the files from the bash deb onto my system. however I am > stumped what to > do to work around. my system will still not boot now > the normal > way. > > here's the error: > > > Setting up dash > (0.5.5.1-6) ... > dpkg-divert: mismatch on package > when removing > `diversion of /bin/sh by dash' > found `diversion of /bin/sh to > /bin/sh.distrib by bash' > dpkg: error processing dash > (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned > error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > > dash > > > I tried using dpkg-divert removal for the "bad" > diversion as shown in > the manpage for it but that didn't > work. > > Is there anything I can do other than a complete reinstall > ? > > My system is a macbook late'06. > > > Thanks, > Brian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email > to > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] > > Archive: > href="http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]"; > > target=_blank > >http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- > Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of > different selves that are actively involved in a given > relationship. > Carl Sagan (Contact) Absolute > certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds-and fanatics. It is, for > scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. > Cassius J. > Keyser > Jaime Ochoa Malagón > > Arquitecto de Soluciones > Cel: +52 (55) 1021 > 0774 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] with > a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > ymailto="mailto:[email protected]"; > href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected] Archive: > > href="http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]"; > > target=_blank > >http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
