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From: "Stephen Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: libc6 upgrade fails
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:12:50 +0800
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package: libc6
version: 2.1.3-1
When i try to upgrade libc6 through dselect the package fails.
Here is the transcript:
Configuring packages ...
Setting up libc6 (2.1.3-1) ...
Current default timezone: 'Australia/Perth'.
Local time is now: Tue Feb 8 14:10:12 WST 2000.
Universal Time is now: Tue Feb 8 06:10:12 UTC 2000.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.
/etc/init.d/devpts.sh: line 66: syntax error: unexpected end of file
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I am running a frozen potato system. Output from uname -a shows
Linux <host> 2.2.13 #4 SMP <compile time>
libc version is libc-2.1.3.so
The contents of devpts.sh is as follows.
#! /bin/sh
set -e
. /etc/default/devpts
[ `uname -s` = "Linux" ] || exit 0
make_devptmx()
{
[ -c /dev/ptmx ] || mknod --mode=666 /dev/ptmx c 5 2
}
make_devpts()
{
[ -d /dev/pts ] || mkdir --mode=755 /dev/pts
{
mount_devpts_fs()
{
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts -ogid=${TTYGRP},mode=${TTYMODE}
}
devfs=$(grep -c devfs /proc/filesystems || true)
devpts=$(grep -c devpts /proc/filesystems || true)
devpts_mounted=$(mount | grep -c devpts || true)
release=$(uname -r)
tail=${release#*.*.}
major_release=${release%.${tail}}
minor_release=${tail%%[-.]*}
if [ $devfs -eq 1 ]; then
solution=devfs
elif [ $devpts -eq 1 ]; then
solution=devpts
else
solution=none
fi
case ${major_release} in
2.[23456789] | 3.*)
# Have
case $solution in
devfs)
:
;;
devpts)
# devpts
# create /dev/ptmx and /dev/pts dir.
make_devptmx
make_devpts
# mount devpts fs on /dev/pts
# maybe mountall.sh mounted it already, so check.
if [ $devpts_mounted -lt 1 ]
then
mount_devpts_fs
fi
;;
none)
:
;;
esac
;;
*)
;;
esac
I hope this is enough information.
regards,
Steve Kelly
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 05:53:44 -0800
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From: Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#57318: libc6 upgrade fails
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>Configuring packages ...
>Setting up libc6 (2.1.3-1) ...
>Current default timezone: 'Australia/Perth'.
> Local time is now: Tue Feb 8 14:10:12 WST 2000.
> Universal Time is now: Tue Feb 8 06:10:12 UTC 2000.
>Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.
>/etc/init.d/devpts.sh: line 66: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> libc6
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
You needed to answer I when dpkg asked you about the conffile, please cp
/etc/init.d/devpts.sh.dpkg-dist /etc/init.d/devpts.sh and try again.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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