On Thu, August 6, 2009 8:02 am, Sven Joachim wrote: > 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 > >
Fortunately, after a little digging, I found out aptitude symlinked /bin/sh -> dash before actually installing it. Now everything's cool again :D -JK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
