Le Lundi 24 Octobre 2005 23:39, anoop aryal a écrit : > 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. >
Hi, thanks, Actually I tried all I could with the system's tools (dpkg, aptitude, apt-get) with a lot of "option" (install , install --reinstall, remove, remove --purge, ....) whith the same error Philippe > > 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!!!
