On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 6:37 AM Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it> wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 April 2022 at 13:17:48, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > > > Greetings > > > > In the process of upgrading my system I now am stuck at a point where > > I don't know how to resolve the conundrum. > > > > /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: not found > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10 > > returned an error code (1) > > E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10 > > > > when I go to look at the files and folders in /usr/bin/ I can find > > this apt-listchanges but somehow the apt 'system' isn't seeing it or > > is seeing it poorly. > > > > When I try apt --fix-broken install I the same message. > > > > How do I resolve this - - - - -please? > > I found myself in exactly this situation recently. > > I had a machine running Beowulf with all mounted file systems as LVM logical > volumes. I created a duplicate LV of the root file system and rebooted from > it, then performed an upgrade to Chimaera. > > I wasn't happy (for reasons that don't matter here) with the result, so I > simply re-booted back into the untouched Beowulf root FS. > > Unfortunately I had neglected to consider the consequences of my having > created a separate /var partition in the first place, which got used by the > Chimaera upgrade, and was then thoroughly corrupted as far as Beowulf was > concered (mainly due to /var/dpkg, I'm sure). > > It turned out that the "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges: not found" message is highly > misleading, and means that the script could not find the Python interpreter it > expected to, not that the script itself could not be found. > > So, I think if you look at the first line of that script on your system, it > will point to something like /usr/bin/python3, which is probably a symlink to > something else in /usr/bin, which does not exist. > > I hope this should at least give you some pointers as to what it is you need > to fix - get the correct version of Python3 installed. >
I had just previously deleted the folder python3.9 but python3.10 was right beside so thought deleting the previous would make more room (which I desperately need!!). When looking at the first lines in apt-listchanges - - - well I'm no programmer but the code looks more like Perl to me with the use of the :: directives but I dunno much about programming so that could be right out to lunch!!! Not seeing anything like what you're describing - - - sorry. When the tools to fix the broken tools don't work - - - - what are the options? Is there only a re-install? (That would be scary - - - - this is a complicated system and I've got piles of software installed!! - - - last time I did this things were quite hairy for quite a while!!!! Not fun at all!) Thank you for the information - - - good to know that the error message really doesn't connect with the real world - - - - I wasn't even able to find any references on the web - - - - ZERO - - - which - - I thought was sorta unusual! Regards _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
