On 6/15/20 3:43 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 4:40 PM Gary Aitken <deb...@dreamchaser.org <mailto:deb...@dreamchaser.org>> wrote:
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$ dpkg --simulate --remove postfix dpkg: could not open log '/var/log/dpkg.log': Permission denied
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Lots of the apt and dpkg functions require Root or Sudo. Notice the "Permission denied" phases mixed in with the responses.
Notice the --simulate; at this point I'm not trying to actually perform the action. --simulate works whether running as root or not. In any case, I've previously tried running --simulate using sudo or when logged in as root and the result is the same ... the libc-bin self-reference:
dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers: chain of packages whose triggers are or may be responsible: libc-bin -> libc-bin packages' pending triggers which are or may be unresolvable: libc-bin: ldconfig dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--purge): triggers looping, abandoned
Gary
