On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:04:43 -0400, Marty wrote:
> # find /var/lib/dpkg/info/ |xargs grep '\.py' |grep -v python
> [....]
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst:if which $PYTHON >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -e
> /usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py ]; then
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst: $PYTHON -O
> /usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py -q $i
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst: $PYTHON
> /usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py -q $i
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.prerm: awk '$0~/\.py$/ {print $0"c\n" $0"o"}' |
This is where I owe you a drink !
So what I did, was abusing the -e in the first line and rename the file to
compilezall.py; and apt-get went through.
Then I issued a
# apt-get install --reinstall python2.3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/2905kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 152140 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python2.3 2.3.5-3 (using .../python2.3_2.3.5-3_i386.deb)
...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/command/build_ext.pyc': Is a
directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 123
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Package `prerm' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Unpacking replacement python2.3 ...
Setting up python2.3 (2.3.5-3) ...
Compiling python modules in /usr/lib/python2.3 ...
Compiling optimized python modules in /usr/lib/python2.3 ...
This does not sound too sane, but went through. With some luck we should
be done now.
Still, it is a bug in Debian: once Python breaks, dpkg and apt are down,
until a clever hacker intervenes.
I'll keep you updated in case I find more trouble (or insights).
Thanks a bunch again, I would have never managed on my own,
Uwe
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