On 8 Oct 1999, David Coe wrote: > "Stephen R. Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to upgrade a fresh slink base-install to potato. I've upgraded > > apt (0.3.7slink0), edited sources.list, did apt-get update, and apt-get > > dist-upgrade. (I've done all this from scratch 3 times - it's repeatable). > > > > I get the following error: > > > > E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Pre-Invoke 'mount -o remount,rw /usr'
I tracked this down here to the fact that I had installed /usr/doc/apt-get/examples/apt.conf with appropriate changes for my site, but I missed this bit: // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; HTH =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=