On Monday 24 October 2005 03:28 pm, Philippe Grenard wrote: > Hi all! > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. > > After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, nor > uninstall. (xserver-xorg to be precise) > > So after somme googling, I tried to edit > /var/lib/dpkg/status > /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates > and remove the entries of xserver-xorg > I also removed /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.* (preinst, postinst, prerm, > postrm, and so on) > > but the system still won't install the package. It always failed during the > preinst script it seems : > > root # dpkg -i > /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_6.8.2.dfsg.1-9_i386.deb (Lecture de la > base de données... 134036 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.) > Dépaquetage de xserver-xorg (à partir > de .../xserver-xorg_6.8.2.dfsg.1-9_i386.deb) ... > dpkg : erreur de traitement > de /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_6.8.2.dfsg.1-9_i386.deb > (--install) : le sous-processus pre-installation script a retourné une > erreur de sortie d'état 1 > Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution : > /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg_6.8.2.dfsg.1-9_i386.deb > > ( it's in french, but basically, it says that there was an error during > dpkg during preinst script with an error or exit code 1) > > Well, the questions are : > - How to make the system believe that the package isn't (or is) install, in > order to remove and reinstall it properly > - Is there a way to "run the dpkg process" step by step by hand with only > some basic commands as cp, rm, mv, mkdir, .... to see where there is a > problem - any other idea? > - Do I need to reinstall the whole system?
i would try: aptitude reinstall <the-package> and see if it helps. anoop. > > I thank you all for any help! > I already tried a lot of google but i couldn't find a solution to this > problem. > I also don't mind to read a lot of useful stuff if anybody has some ideas. > > Thanks a lot for any useful link or idea!!!
