I'm using Infomagics release from December 1996 and I've got the same
problem. I found that installing the base perl system seems to work
but if you upgrade it (even to the devel packages in Std) it breaks.
I've installed the base perl (required) version for now and put a hold on
it. I found that under some circumstances perl gets partially deinstalled
or misconfigured. Perl lives (on my system) in /usr/bin/perl but there
is a symlink in /usr/bin that tends to disappear.
I was tracking a similar problem on one of my four machines, 3 of which
run Debian now. When attempting to install diald it failed with some
message about 'no such file or directory'. Diald installed fine on the
other machine and they are basically the same setup.
I found that the /bin/perl link had been deleted on the machine that
had the problems so all I did was recreate it with
ln -s /usr/bin/perl /bin/perl
and all was well. I installed diald after that (but haven't completed
configuration yet).
Hope this helps,
Bernt.
Bernt T. Hansen Norang Consulting Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Systems 235 Bellamy Road North phone: (416)431-6216
Analyst Scarborough, Ontario fax: (416)431-2617
Canada M1J-2L7
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote:
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 15:44:17 GMT
> From: Brian Skreeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).
>
> Hi folks, I asked for help on this problem last week but since having
> to change addresses suddenly I didn't get any replies (you might have seen
> them bouncing) so here it is again. My linux box is almost unusable because
> of this so I look forward to some help on the matter.
>
> 1:
>
> Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and
> dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. From previous experience of this I had
> already the .deb file for io,libnet and dpkg-ftp. Installing these using
> dpkg -i managed to install them correctly and dselect shows no errors or
> files need "configured". Perl also appears to be installed OK , though I
> don't believe it (more on that later).
> When attempting to use the ftp option of Dselect I get this error;
>
> dselect (subprocess): unable to run query/setup script process
> `/usr/lib/methods/ftp/setup': no such file or directory
>
> query/setup script returned error exit status 2.
>
> obviously I've knackered it up through all the
> install/remove/install/remove stuff I was doing trying to get round those
> daft dependancies.
>
>
> 2:
>
> This problem is worse since it stops logging and halts mail delivery.
> When my box boots I get the following errors showing multiple times as the
> init process attempts to run the various daemons.
>
> eg.
>
> /etc/rc2.d/S10sysklogd: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or
> directory.
>
> This is the same for all daemons attempting to run..
>
> When just sitting as root and trying to execute "start-stop-daemon" frmo
> ANY directory the following error occurs.
>
> bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory.
>
> This is odd since it's finding the correct program and the path for it but
> is saying it can't find it. Spook! I've looksed in /usr/sbin and
> start-stop-daemon is definitly in there.
>
> Help much appreciated. I've went so long now (for a newbie) without
> reinstalling that I don't really want to start over again.
>
> Brian Skreeg - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fish Technologies Ltd.)
>
> Connecting via U-Net Ltd
>
>
>
