That's odd. As far as I can tell Martin Costabel's instructions should have made dpkg forget about sbcl altogether.
Could you possibly post your /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status file to some Web or FTP server so that we are able to get it? If that's not possible, send it to my e-mail address (do not send it to the fink-devel mailing list) after having compressed it to .zip or .gz. On 31/12/2009, at 08:02, Dr. Wolfram Schroers wrote: > Martin, > > I have followed the instructions and removed the entries from /sw/ > var/lib/dpkg/status. There were no files with sbcl in their names in > the /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info subdirectory. Finally, I ran "fink > scanpackages" and "sudo apt-get update". > > When trying to install sbcl again, I got an error message again. So > I deleted all sbcl-files in the src-directory, all deb-files > anywhere and tried to "fink install sbcl" again. It downloaded the > sources successfully, built the package successfully and issued the > following error message during the install: > > (Reading database ... > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `sbcl' missing, > assuming package has no files currently installed. > 177971 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing fink-buildlock-sbcl-1.0.33-1 ... > Reading buildlock packages... > /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- > i386/languages/sbcl_1.0.33-1_darwin-i386.deb > (Reading database ... > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `sbcl' missing, > assuming package has no files currently installed. > 177970 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace sbcl 1.0.33-1 (using .../sbcl_1.0.33-1_darwin- > i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement sbcl ... > ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 6 > /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Updating the list of locally available binary packages. > Scanning dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386 > Changed package: dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/languages/ > sbcl_1.0.33-1_darwin-i386.deb > Failed: can't install package sbcl-1.0.33-1 > > > Any suggestions for the root of this issue? > > W. > > >> Dr. Wolfram Schroers wrote: >> [] >>> Error message from "sudo apt-get remove sbcl": >> [] >>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing sbcl (--remove): >>> Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should >>> reinstall it before attempting a removal. >> >> In such a situation, I found that the only solution is to manually >> erase the package from dpkg's memory: >> >> 1. Go to the directory /sw/var/lib/dpkg >> >> 2. Then copy the file "status" to "status.bak" to have a backup >> copy if anything goes wrong. There is already a backup copy called >> "status-old" which may be a little older. >> >> 3. Then edit "status" using a text editor that does not destroy >> text files (vi or pico etc., not emacs or TextEdit). The file >> contains little paragraphs for each package. Go to the paragraph >> starting with the line >> >> Package: sbcl >> >> and erase it (the whole paragraph, around 23 lines). >> >> Repeat this for any other paragraph that has a "Package:" line with >> "sbcl" in it. Do not touch paragraphs that have "sbcl" in some >> other line. Save the edited file "status". >> >> 4. Finally go to the "info" subdirectory and remove any files with >> "sbcl" in their names, like "sbcl.list", "sbcl.postinst", >> "sbcl.prerm". >> >> This should do it. Run "fink scanpackages" and "sudo apt-get >> update", and then resume whatever you wanted to do. >> >> -- >> Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
