On 2009-08-06 00:11 +0200, Jack Knowlton wrote: > Coming back from a month-long trip, I decided to safe-upgrade my debian > unstable desktop. Among the hundreds of new packages, apt seemed eager to > install (or upgrade, I'm not sure) dash.
This is intended. > Unfortunately, something seems to have gone terribly wrong and I would > like to complete successfully the upgrade before rebooting the box. Here's > what aptitude is complaining about: > > Unpacking dash (from .../dash_0.5.5.1-2.3_amd64.deb) ... > Adding `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by dash' > Adding `diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/sh.distrib.1.gz by dash' > dpkg (subprocess): unable to exec dpkg-deb to get filesystem archive: No > such file or directory That sounds as if you had lost dpkg-deb, which would be very worrisome. Did you upgrade dpkg as well, and did anything go wrong with it? Check whether /usr/bin/dpkg-deb exists and is executable, and look into /var/log/dpkg.log for recently installed/upgraded/removed packages. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
