After a recent upgrade of some potato packages, xcontrib is in a very broken state where I can neither upgrade nor remove it.
dpkg reports: $ dpkg -l xcontrib Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ pHR xcontrib 3.3.2-5.1 XFree contributed clients. Trying to upgrade causes the post-removal script to do something which grabs all the memory and swap in my computer and ends up segfaulting. dpkg --force-remove-reinstrq also makes this happen. There must be some way to manually remove all traces of xcontrib and try installing it again, but I haven't found any mention of how to accomplish this. Can someone please point me in the right direction? tia, Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
