Mumia W. wrote:
> On 08/04/2006 06:06 AM, kevin bailey wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm getting the following from a vanilla install of sarge. >> >> Any pointers gratefully received - obviously I want to be careful and not >> screw up the dpkg system. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kev >> >> psctbdc2:~# apt-get dist-upgrade >> Reading Package Lists... Done >> Building Dependency Tree... Done >> Calculating Upgrade... Done >> The following packages will be upgraded: >> apache apache-common apache2-utils dhcp-client gnupg libapr0 >> libgd2-noxpm >> 7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >> Need to get 2011kB/3671kB of archives. >> After unpacking 106kB disk space will be freed. >> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] >> Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main gnupg 1.4.1-1.sarge5 >> [1909kB] >> Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main dhcp-client >> 2.0pl5-19.1sarge2 [102kB] >> Fetched 2011kB in 17s (117kB/s) >> Preconfiguring packages ... >> dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) >> >> > > That's a weird error because, AFAIK, none of the packages you > were updating depend upon exim. > > Perhaps you forgot to do an "aptitude upgrade" before the > "aptitude dist-upgrade." If you continue to get the error, do > this: > > aptitude search '~Dexim' | less > > and see if any of the packages that show up are in the list > you were trying to upgrade. > > PS. > That aptitude search command lists packages that depend upon > exim. > > > Hi - here's what I tried. psctbdc2:~# apt-get -s install aptitude Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done aptitude is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. psctbdc2:~# man aptitude Reformatting aptitude(8), please wait... psctbdc2:~# aptitude upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be upgraded: apache apache-common apache2-utils dhcp-client gnupg libapr0 libgd2-noxpm 7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/3671kB of archives. After unpacking 106kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done psctbdc2:~# aptitude upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be upgraded: apache apache-common apache2-utils dhcp-client gnupg libapr0 libgd2-noxpm 7 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/3671kB of archives. After unpacking 106kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done psctbdc2:~# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages have been kept back: apache2-utils libapr0 The following NEW packages will be installed: at exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light mailx mdetect mutt read-edid The following packages will be upgraded: apache apache-common dhcp-client gnupg libgd2-noxpm 5 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 217kB/6511kB of archives. After unpacking 7508kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk stable/main at 3.1.8-11 [37.9kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk stable/main mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 [151kB] Get:3 ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk stable/main mdetect 0.5.2 [15.8kB] Get:4 ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk stable/main read-edid 1.4.1-2 [12.4kB] Fetched 217kB in 3s (54.8kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done psctbdc2:~# aptitude search '~Dexim' | less psctbdc2:~# aptitude search '~Dexim' p af - An Emacs-like mail reader and composer p bacula-director-common - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director common files) p biabam - bash attachment mailer p bonsai - The Mozilla CVS query tool by web interface p capisuite - easy fax and voice box solution for ISDN/CAPI capable devices p courier-imap - Courier Mail Server - IMAP server p courier-maildrop - Courier Mail Server - Mail delivery agent p courier-pop - Courier Mail Server - POP3 server p cyrus-common - CMU Cyrus mail system (common files) p debbugs - The bug tracking system based on the active Debian BTS p drupal - fully-featured content management/discussion engine p ecartis - Fast, Flexible Mailing List Manager pi exim4 - metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) installation ci exim4-base - support files for all exim MTA (v4) packages p exim4-daemon-heavy - exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended features, including exiscan-acl pi exim4-daemon-light - lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon p eximon - X monitor for the exim mail transport agent. p eximon4 - monitor application for the exim MTA (v4) (X11 interface) p fcron - cron-like scheduler with extended capabilities p gforge - Collaborative development tool - meta-package p gforge-lists-mailman - Collaborative development tool - mailing-lists (using Mailman) p gforge-mta-exim - Collaborative development tool - mail tools (using Exim) p gforge-mta-exim4 - Collaborative development tool - mail tools (using Exim 4) p gnats - The GNU problem report management system (central database) p gnats-user - The GNU problem report management system (client tools) p gosa - Web Based LDAP Administration Program p gup - let a remote site change their newsgroups subscription p ifgate - Internet to Fidonet gateway p imp3 - Web Based Mail Program p inn - News transport system `InterNetNews' by the ISC and Rich Salz p inn2 - 'InterNetNews' news server p ipband - daemon for subnet bandwidth monitoring with reporting via email p jitterbug - A cgi-bin tool for problem reporting and tracking p lire - full-featured log analyzer and report generator p log2mail - Daemon watching logfiles and mailing lines matching patterns p logcheck - Mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator p lsb-core - Linux Standard Base 2.0 core support package p maildrop - mail delivery agent with filtering abilities p mailman - Powerful, web-based mailing list manager p mailscanner - email virus scanner and spam tagger p mailto - WWW Forms to Mail Gateway ci mailx - A simple mail user agent ci mutt - Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading p ninpaths - Paths Survey reporting program p noffle - offline news server p popularity-contest - Vote for your favourite packages automatically p printbill - Sophisticated print billing / accounting system for lprng p qpopper - Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3) p qpopper-drac - Qpopper with DRAC Support p remstats - Remote Statistics System: collectors and presentation-cgis p renattach - Rename attachments on the fly p request-tracker3 - Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system p request-tracker3.4 - Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system p rt3-clients - Mail gateway and command-line interface to request-tracker3 p rt3.4-clients - Mail gateway and command-line interface to request-tracker3.4 p sa-exim - Use SpamAssassin at SMTP time with the Exim v4 MTA p sbuild - Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources p scoop - Web-based collaborative media application p smokeping - latency logging and graphing system p sqwebmail - Courier Mail Server - Webmail server p subversion-tools - assorted tools related to Subversion (aka. svn) p systraq - monitor your system and warn when system files change p tripwire - file and directory integrity checker p uqwk-spool - Offline mail and news package creator (spool version) p webmin-exim - exim mail server control module for webmin p whatsnewfm - A utility to filter the daily newsletter from freshmeat.net psctbdc2:~# apt-get install postfix Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre Recommended packages: mail-reader resolvconf The following NEW packages will be installed: postfix 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/802kB of archives. After unpacking 1974kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) psctbdc2:~# apt-get remove postfix Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... Done Package postfix is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. psctbdc2:~# psctbdc2:~# apt-get remove exim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package exim is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. psctbdc2:~# apt-get install exim Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: mail-reader eximon The following NEW packages will be installed: exim 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/759kB of archives. After unpacking 1434kB of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) psctbdc2:~# Thanks for any quick pointers. As this is a vanilla install I may just go to the site and reinstall the OS. Debian has never given me this type of problem before so it may be something weird or something I've done. Thanks again, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
