I just want to add some bits of information: The release notes of slink are highly misleading, and therefore I did the upgrade not as it is supposed to be done (in short: I installed apt-0.1.9 from slink, glibc from slink, and a few other packages on which apt is depending by hand. Then I did the upgrade.
A much more detailed report is in http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-testing-9902/msg00135.html Thanks. --Rainer. > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Doing apt-get dist-upgrade: > > [...] > > Preparing to replace libdb2 2.3.16-7 (using libdb2_2.4.14-1.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement libdb2 ... > > Preparing to replace libg++2.8 2.90.29-0.6 (using libg++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb) > > ... > > Unpacking replacement libg++2.8 ... > > Selecting previously deselected package libjpeg62. > > E: Sub-process returned an error code > > > You can find a script log in > > http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/Download/hamm2slink > > I don't understand this, dpkg returned a failure code and yet it did not > print any messagesm aside from this one which I belive to be not result in > an error code. > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: > trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8/lilo.8.gz', which is also in package > manpages > > I have seen this reported many times, and each time the reporter was > unable to reproduce it. > > Actually if you examine the last output of dpkg it looks like this: > > Unpacking replacement libg++2.8 ... > Selecting previously deselected package libjpeg62. > E: Sub-process returned an error code > > Notice it how it says 'Selecting previouly dselected package' and then > nothing more (it usually says unpacking)? It almost looks like it crashed > right there! (Note: I do not explicy say if there has been a segfault in > the child process with that APT version, CVS APT will print out a more > usefull message) > > If dpkg is segfaulting on large upgrades we are in trouble - this is not > an isolated case either, I have heard at least 3 other reports. > > Jason >
