On (16/04/04 17:11), Michael Linton wrote: > I recently took over a Debian system whose previous owner had been using > "testing" apt-get sources. For reasons that now make no sense even to me I > switched to "unstable" sources I had been using (without any apparent > problems) on my laptop for a year. > > So - apt-get upgrade failed ------------ > > Preconfiguring packages ... > Setting up libpam-runtime (0.76-18) ... > dpkg: error processing libpam-runtime (--configure): > subprocess post-installation scritp returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > libpam-runtime > > I'm now pointing to "testing" again but getting the same result. I tried > running dpkg -i libpam-runtime.. from the command line and got > the same result. > > # apt-get dist-upgrade does the same. > > What could I do to elucidate the actual error message (from post-installation > script) itself? If you search the archives http://lists.debian.org/search.html there was a thread on this recently. Subject: libpam-runtime is broken in unstable
Go to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243426 The fix is to touch /etc/pam.d/other.pre-upgrade and then your upgrade will continue. HTH Clive -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
