On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Irrwahn wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote on 02.01.2018 03:49: > > lprng is only partially installed after upgrade. Aptitude and apt keep > > telling me this. However, it seems to work fine, and I have no problems > > talking to my postscript laser printer. > > > > lprng's line in interactive aptitude is: > > > > Ch lprng 3.8.B-2.1 3.8.B-2.1 > > > > on trying to clear its status by an explicit install, it appears not to > > be able to 'start' it: > > > > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/printme# aptitude install lprng > > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > > lprng > > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > > Setting up lprng (3.8.B-2.1) ... > > invoke-rc.d: initscript lprng, action "start" failed. > > dpkg: error processing package lprng (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status > > 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > lprng > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Setting up lprng (3.8.B-2.1) ... > > invoke-rc.d: initscript lprng, action "start" failed. > > dpkg: error processing package lprng (--configure): > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status > > 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > lprng > > > > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/printme# > > > > > > Any ideas? > > Lprng installs and configures fine on my ascii VM (after removing > cups-bsd and cups-client, BTW.)
Mine was upgraded from jessie a few days ago. > > * Did any relevant messages end up in the system log? I'll look in the upgrade log. > > * Did you try to completely purge and then reinstall the package? Not yet. > > * There's only a few places where the /etc/init.d/lprng script can > exit with a code different from 0 upon start. > Maybe you could try manually executing those parts of the script > to check which one actually fails? E.g.: > #test -f /usr/sbin/lpd || test -d /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lprng || exit 5 > > Going by your recent slew of problem reports I cannot help the > impression your system may be hosed in a rather peculiar way. It had been hosed a year or so ago -- when aptitude had thousands of broken or uninstalled and uninstallable packages . A package repository for up-to-date ocaml had been in my sources.list and it apparently had packages that related neither to ocaml or Devuan jessie. I could still use aptitude from the command-line, but intereactive aptitude was unusable. I had to purge aptitude entirely and reinstall it using apt to cure the problem. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
