I'm now at the point, via random attempts to fix this, where "Install base system" fails because mount is looking for libdevmapper.so.1.02, and what is on my CD is libdevmapper.1.01.
Can I just set up a symlink to a file with the right name to libdevmapper.1.01? I don't want to corrupt the disk, I have existing data. > -----Original Message----- > From: Allen Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 1:18 PM > To: 'Allen Williams'; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap > fails, and the house falls in > > > 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] >
