OK. Here's the situation. I'm a bit stumped:
Debian 2.2, running on a p133 32MB
Trying to install some stuff via apt, apt decided to remove
gnome-bin. Which is OK with me: I don't really use gnome anyway.
Except that it's not trying to remove gnome-bin each time, and
breaking apt's functionality (as well as dpkg).
Error(s):
Global Symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173
Global Symbol "$groupname" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suidunregister line 174
Global Symbol "$inode" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suidunregister line 178
execution of /usr/sbin/suidunregistrer aborged due to compilation
errors.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status
255
Errors were encoutnered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-bin_1.0.54-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Since this has happened, I can only sometimes apt-get install or
upgrade, I can partially remove stuff. I've tried removing gnome-bin with
apt and dpkg. dpkg suggests that I reinstall the package to remove it
(package gnome-bin_xxx is seriously damaged. Perhaps you should reinstall?),
but I get the same errors when I try to reinstall (again, from apt or dpkg)
except that the errors are in /usr/sbin/suidregister.
Any ideas? I'd be happy to manually deinstall or reinstall the thing
(from source?)
Am I hosed?
Help?
glen
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