I've been unable to upgrade my debian machine for months now, just getting around to trying to fix it.
~$ uname -a Linux NSLUG 2.6.18-6-ixp4xx #1 Tue Feb 12 00:57:53 UTC 2008 armv5tel GNU/Linux I've had some luck with these instructions: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/07/msg03322.html I had to remove the files in /var/cache/debconf, so now all of the perl errors are gone, but the dpkg upgrade still fails. # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: openssh-client openssh-server The following packages will be upgraded: avahi-daemon bind9-host cpio dbus debconf debconf-i18n dnsutils dpkg dselect initramfs-tools initscripts libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-compat-howl0 libavahi-core4 libbind9-0 libc6 libcupsys2 libdbus-1-3 libdns22 libfreetype6 libgnutls13 libisc11 libisccc0 libisccfg1 libkrb53 liblwres9 libpcre3 libssl0.9.8 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 linux-image-2.6.18-6-ixp4xx locales mt-daapd mtr-tiny ntpdate openssl perl perl-base perl-modules python2.4 python2.4-minimal reportbug rsync samba samba-common samba-doc selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted smbclient smbfs swat sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tzdata winbind 58 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/58.5MB of archives. After unpacking 774kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb (--unpack): files list file for package `coreutils' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.13.26_arm.deb Processing was halted because there were too many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Thanks in advance, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
