Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

On 6/16/20 9:47 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Aitken wrote: ... Since postfix is already hosed: sudo rm -rf /etc/postfix sudo apt install --reinstall postfix Thanks, will save that for next time. Gary

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

On 6/16/20 6:03 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Aitken wrote: On 6/15/20 3:37 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Aitken wrote: ... When originally built, the system had a screwed-up postfix installation; in attempting to solve this problem, I wanted to uninstall postfix and reinstall it. However, I

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

On 6/15/20 3:37 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Aitken wrote: ... When originally built, the system had a screwed-up postfix installation; in attempting to solve this problem, I wanted to uninstall postfix and reinstall it. However, I don't think I should do that because the postfix install

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

On 6/15/20 3:43 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 4:40 PM Gary Aitken mailto:deb...@dreamchaser.org>> wrote: ... $ dpkg --simulate --remove postfix dpkg: could not open log '/var/log/dpkg.log': Permission denied ... Lots of the apt and dpkg functions requ

libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

Hi all, I'm attempting to manage a google-compute system running debian/ubuntu; I normally run a freebsd system so I'm out of my element here and web searches haven't helped: 81~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 11 14:56:45 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux When originally built, the system had