do you has tried to reinstall bash? perhaps force reinstall? On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Brian Morris <cymraeg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have got this thing bad, it blocked my upgrades completely in sid, I > tried to remove dash and i got bash removed instead, i got into a > chroot via rescue mode with the installer and with placing emergency > copies of the files from the bash deb onto my system. however I am > stumped what to do to work around. my system will still not boot now > the normal way. > > here's the error: > > > Setting up dash (0.5.5.1-6) ... > dpkg-divert: mismatch on package > when removing `diversion of /bin/sh by dash' > found `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by bash' > dpkg: error processing dash (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > dash > > > I tried using dpkg-divert removal for the "bad" diversion as shown in > the manpage for it but that didn't work. > > Is there anything I can do other than a complete reinstall ? > > My system is a macbook late'06. > > Thanks, > Brian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilrnitoeotdtqgshziq6cdgrncahmkkuez_w...@mail.gmail.com > >
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