clean out the cache and start again would be my option make sure you apt-get update - to update sources.list the apt-get clean or apt-get autoclean to clean out your cache and then start over
tom "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you." -F. Scott Fitzgerald- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Croft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:03 PM Subject: [SLUG] Bloody bleeding edge unstable error 2 many times > Evening all, specially DebSiggers, > > > Talk about living on the bleeding edge! In order to take advantage of the > latest and greatest, I use unstable packages. For months everything has been > running nicely. > > Feeling at one with the world, I did a nice big dist-upgrade on 1st Nov. > Went like a charm. "Hey this is great!" I said. Ten days later I needed a > few exciting packages like dpkg-dev, kpkg and friends, and went off to get > the latest. > > Remembered that lovely feeling of the smooth dist-upgrade. > > Now I've got a cache pregnant with packages that won't install. All being > held up by 14 packages which don't want to work. Each comes with an error > > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs > line 633, <IN> line 7. > dpkg: error processing findutils (--configure): > > Same goes for > > imlib-base vim mutt bzip2 cmt gdk-imlib1 gdk-imlib2 libxml2-dev > libbonobo-activation-dev libgnomevfs2-dev libpng2-dev xzgv vim-gtk > > Anything i try to install gets blocked by the same error: > > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs > > Updating doesn't help. Updating dselect likewise. Manually editing the > selections file, same thing. Tried the toys: synaptic, deity, aptitude. > > > Tried --force-all-sorts-of-things. > > Any directions, maybe? > > Nick > > =========================================== > Error message example follows: > > nicko@artarmon ~ % sudo apt-get install perl > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 7. > dpkg: error processing findutils (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 7. > dpkg: error processing imlib-base (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 8. > dpkg: error processing vim (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 7. > dpkg: error processing mutt (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 10. > dpkg: error processing bzip2 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 8. > dpkg: error processing cmt (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gdk-imlib1: > gdk-imlib1 depends on imlib-base (>= 1.9.14-1); however: > Package imlib-base is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing gdk-imlib1 (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gdk-imlib2: > gdk-imlib2 depends on imlib-base (>= 1.9.14-11); however: > Package imlib-base is not configured yet. > gdk-imlib2 depends on gdk-imlib1; however: > Package gdk-imlib1 is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing gdk-imlib2 (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 6. > dpkg: error processing libxml2-dev (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libbonobo-activation-dev: > libbonobo-activation-dev depends on libxml2-dev; however: > Package libxml2-dev is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing libbonobo-activation-dev (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgnomevfs2-dev: > libgnomevfs2-dev depends on libbonobo-activation-dev (>= 1.0.3); however: > Package libbonobo-activation-dev is not configured yet. > libgnomevfs2-dev depends on libxml2-dev; however: > Package libxml2-dev is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing libgnomevfs2-dev (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > error in control file: `Title' value not specified at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 633, <IN> line 23. > dpkg: error processing libpng2-dev (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xzgv: > xzgv depends on gdk-imlib2; however: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > findutils > imlib-base > vim > mutt > bzip2 > cmt > gdk-imlib1 > gdk-imlib2 > libxml2-dev > libbonobo-activation-dev > libgnomevfs2-dev > libpng2-dev > xzgv > vim-gtk > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
