On 2009-08-06 17:29 +0200, Eric Gerlach wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:05:56AM +0200, Jack Knowlton wrote: >> 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.
Looking closer into it, this will also happen if you lose /bin/sh because dpkg invokes dpkg-deb using execlp(3), and by studying the eglibc code I found out that this function relies on /bin/sh to find the program to execute in $PATH. >> Fortunately, after a little digging, I found out aptitude symlinked >> /bin/sh -> dash before actually installing it. Now everything's cool again >> :D >> >> -JK > > That *could* be a bug. It may be worth looking to see if anyone else has seen > it, and filing it if no-one has. There is already a bug report for this: http://bugs.debian.org/538822. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
