On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 17:20:56 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hello, > > because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early > stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. > > Now I cannot get apt-get working and I don't know how to fix it. > > Could anyone of you please help me? I'll be also happy with advice > on how to get proper debug info for you, of course. > > $ apt-get -fyo Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes upgrade
[...] > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" > are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16. > Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar > chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 744 not upgraded. > 2 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. > dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found on PATH. > dpkg: 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH. > NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin > and /sbin. > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Both "locale" and "ldconfig" were shifted from libc6 to libc-bin going from Lenny and Squeeze; my guess would be that you upgraded to the Squeeze version of libc6, but you did not yet complete the installation of libc-bin, so now these important commands (and others) are missing on your system. (The libc-bin package does not exist for Lenny.) If dpkg still works then you can try to download libc-bin for your architecture from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libc-bin and install the .deb with "dpkg -i ...", see here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch02.en.html#_rescue_with_the_dpkg_command -- Regards, | Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100501171452.ga26...@bavaria.univ-lyon1.fr