-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Laine Lee wrote: > On 11/27/07 1:11 PM, "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Yep, I tried that and got this: >>>> Removing xml-sax-pm586 ... >>>> /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-sax-pm586.prerm: line 13: 26902 Bus >>>> error /sw/sbin/update-perl586-sax-parsers --remove >>>> XML::SAX::PurePerl /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing xml-sax-pm586 >>>> (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit >>>> status 138 >>>> Does that indicate a separate problem? Thanks again. >>>> Laine >>> >>> Ouch. That looks like some kind of chicken-and-the-egg thing, >>> since the command that's throwing a bus error is from xml-sax-pm586 >>> itself. >>> >> See if (re)moving /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-sax-pm586.prerm lets you >> remove the package. > > > OK, that made Fink happy to remove it, but then when I ran sudo apt-get -f > install, I got > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up xml-sax-pm586 (0.15-2) ... > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/xml-sax-pm586.postinst: line 10: 658 Bus error > /sw/sbin/update-perl586-sax-parsers --add XML::SAX::PurePerl > > So, because your above suggestion worked out so well, I removed the files I > found whose names began with "xml-sax" and contained "pm586" in > "/sw/var/lib/dpkg/info". Now sudo apt-get -f install seems to run with the > expected results. Was that a bad thing to do? I have a Time Machine backup, > should you suggest I put them back. Thanks. > > Laine > I'd say leave it as is. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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