On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:56:51 +1000, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:01:56 +1000, David Powell > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is this a Woody system? Have you looked in the Debian BTS (bug > > tracking system) if this is a known problem/bug? > > Hmmm, good question. I think it is a Woody. I can tell you for sure > that the kernel is 2.6.7. >
I'll look /etc/issue, or for sure in your /etc/apt/sources.list for stable, testing, unstable. I suppose you are running Sarge (testing) or Sid (unstable), because without backporting module-init-tools and other support packages to Woody, you can't run 2.6.x kernels. > > The first thing to try is to "dpkg --configure --pending" (man dpkg > > for the details) and then you can try to fix your system with "apt-get > > -f install" or manually installing sendmail. > > Tried that, it just returns an error: > dpkg: error processing sendmail-base (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > > If this don't woks, you need to increase the dpkg verbosity level to > > look where the problem is... > > Thanks, can you tell me how I'd do that (increase the verbosity). My > guess is dpkg --debug=2000? > I think 200 or 400 should be enough, anyway have you looked in the Debian BTS? Here (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=sendmail-base&archive=no) are reported a couple of problems ugrading (one is solved =)... Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
