Just let you know that it renders my system un-updateable.
It's a chroot 32bits into an amd64...
aptitude install xeyes
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
correct the problem.
....
debianmbp:/# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up menu (2.1.41) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "ca_ES.UTF8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Setting up libgnomevfs2-common (1:2.24.0-3) ...
close failed: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/gconf-schemas", line 82, in <module>
pids=os.popen('pidof gconfd-2').readlines()[0].split()
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
dpkg: error processing libgnomevfs2-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for menu ...
8113
pdf-viewer
..
..
<snip>
..
..
..
zlib1g
libz-dev
zlib1g-dev
These two also hang...
update-menus --stdout
update-menus --stdout | install-menu -v /etc/menu-methods/fluxbox
Running through strace works...
debianmbp:/# strace -o /tmp/log -ffff update-menus -v
update-menus[7161]: Dpkg is not locking dpkg status area, good.
update-menus[7161]: Reading installed packages list...
update-menus[7161]: Reading translation rules in
/etc/menu-methods/translate_menus.
update-menus[7161]: Reading menu-entry files in /etc/menu/.
update-menus[7161]: 0 menu entries found (0 total).
update-menus[7161]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/lib/menu/.
update-menus[7161]: 0 menu entries found (0 total).
update-menus[7161]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/share/menu/.
update-menus[7161]: file /usr/share/menu/desktop-profiles line 6:
Discarding entry requiring missing package kommander.
update-menus[7161]: 59 menu entries found (59 total).
update-menus[7161]: Reading menu-entry files in /usr/share/menu/default/.
update-menus[7161]: 0 menu entries found (59 total).
update-menus[7161]: Running menu-methods in /etc/menu-methods/.
update-menus[7161]: Running method:
/etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-dirs
update-menus[7161]: Running method: /etc/menu-methods/menu-xdg
update-menus[7161]: Running method:
/etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps
update-menus[7161]: Running method:
/etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-sessions
debianmbp:/#
debianmbp:/# dpkg --list libc6 menu
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============================-============================-========================================================================
ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C
Library: Shared libraries
iF menu 2.1.41 generates
programs menu for all menu-aware applications
debianmbp
debianmbp:/# ll /etc/menu-methods/
total 36
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 391 Sep 11 2005 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254 Oct 24 23:13 lang.h
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1396 Sep 28 2007 menu-xdg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Dec 13 2005 menu.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2910 Oct 12 2007 menu.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2232 Feb 29 2008 translate_menus
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1287 May 25 2008 xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1168 May 25 2008 xdg-desktop-entry-spec-dirs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1067 Sep 28 2007 xdg-desktop-entry-spec-sessions
debianmbp:/#
Kind regards
Sebastià
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