Hello? Anyone home? I decided to drop back to Sarge, based on what I read on the Marc, and then change my sources.list to testing, do an update, then upgrade, then dist-upgrade.
So, I went to install Sarge, and it won't install either. I get a "debootstrap program exited with an error" on the main screen, once again in the "Install base system" step, and, when I go to console 3, there is this message as the earliest error I can find: "Use of uninitialized variable in concatenation (.) or string in /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm" line 22", then a later error: "dpkg: syntax error: unknown user `root` in statoverride file" Any help out there at all? I've struggled with this for three days, installing and searching mail archives and googling. I've installed Debian a bunch before, and this is the only time I've had problems like this. I'm going to continue looking and posting what I find, but there are bound to be some gurus out there (or even someone who had a hand in writing this Debian installer). TIA, allen > -----Original Message----- > From: Allen Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 10:51 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap fails, > and the house falls in > > > In the Install base system stage, (sorry- etch, i380 on 3.5 > GHz pentium) it start installing a bunch of libraries, etc. > fine, then hits this message (it found some additional > dependencies, etc.): > > Debootstrap warning > Warning: couldn't download manpages > > Then, it can't download any package after that. Finally, at > the end, I get: > > Warning: Failure to run chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc > > Debootstrap exited with an error > check syslog...etc, etc. > > I found the Failure to run... message in the archives, but > evidently, the person wasn't having all the previous problems > I was. I tried to do what was recommended to him (dir > /target/lib/ld-*, then try to execute the /target/lib/ld-*, > which I did and it worked to the extent I got an error > message for a bad command line (not knowing the syntax of the > command). > > There's something in the log printed *vertically* that says > it couldn't get debconf version information, is it installed? > > Then there's a message debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed > illegal seek > > also, there's an error: dpkg: unknow user 'root' in statoverride file > > and dpkg fails. > > Any ideas? > > TIA > > Thanks & Regards, > ---------------- > Allen Williams > (321)258-1272 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
