Hi Alvaro, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I started an aptitude safe-upgrade and left the computer for half an > hour. Upon return I find that there's a suspicious process eating 100% > of a CPU for a long time. Sorry for the long silence. Let's see. > /proc/pid/cmdline says: > > # cat cmdline > /usr/bin/perl-w/usr/share/debconf/frontend/var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.postinstabort-upgrade0.5.5.1-2.3 - "prerm upgrade" and "prerm failed-upgrade" failed, or - "preinst upgrade" failed and "postrm abort-upgrade" succeeded, or - "postrm upgrade" and "postrm failed-upgrade" failed and "preinst abort-upgrade" and "postrm abort-upgrade" succeeded. Which is to say, something went seriously wrong. > strace'ing the process yields this: [...] > ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B0 -opost -isig icanon -echo ...}) = > 0 > <repeats ad nauseam> (isatty, I think.) > Killing that process and doing an "aptitude install dash" reports this: [...] > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dash_0.5.5.1-2.3_amd64.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/bin/sh', which is also in package bash At last, something simpler to understand. Does a more recent version of the dash package work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org