Package: dash
Version: 0.5.8-2.6
Severity: serious
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Just doing a typical update for debian unstable.
dmm:/bin/ $ sudo apt-get install dash
[11:13:29]
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
dash is already the newest version (0.5.8-2.6).
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-image-4.13.0-1-amd64 linux-image-4.14.0-1-amd64
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 139 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up dash (0.5.8-2.6) ...
Removing 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by bash'
Adding 'diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash'
Removing 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by bash'
Adding 'diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to
/usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash'
dpkg: error: error executing hook 'if { test "$DPKG_HOOK_ACTION" =
add-architecture || test "$DPKG_HOOK_ACTION" = remove-architecture; } && test
-x /usr/share/pkgconf-dpkghook; then /usr/share/pkgconf-dpkghook update; fi',
exit code 32512
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Unfortnuately this has the affect of breaking the symbolic link for
/bin/sh and so many things, like apt-get update then fail.
Quick work arround is to ln bash as sh.
Gets us going again, steps below for anyone in trouble.
dmm:/bin/ $ ls -la /bin/sh
[11:13:38]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 24 11:13 /bin/sh -> dash
dmm:/bin/ $ sudo rm sh
[11:14:23]
dmm:/bin/ $ sudo ln -s bash sh
[11:14:41]
dmm:/bin/ $ ls -la sh
[11:14:46]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 24 11:14 sh -> bash
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (150, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii debianutils 4.8.4
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5
ii libc6 2.26-4
dash recommends no packages.
dash suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* dash/sh: true
