An apt-get problem today

[Derek Broughton]

Luca wrote:

> FIXED
> 
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
>> Well, there you go.  That's why I said I think you probably should be
>> fixing your filesystem.  You've got a "find" command stuck in a loop,
>> no
>> wonder it's passing too many files to xargs.  It would be good to
>> find out why that link is cyclic and break it.
>>
>> It's about 95% likely that just removing those lines from the script,
>> and running "sudo dpkg --configure -a" will work (at least, iirc,
>> that
>> runs the postinst script).  But there's a small chance that you
>> really _do_ have something with an invalid gid.
> 
> Thanks you very much for your patience! It works!
> 
> Only last question: now that apt update worked I need to keep those
> lines commented? Or can I restore the old version?

It doesn't matter now - that script isn't going to run again until the 
package is updated, and then it's going to be replaced with a new 
version (even if you just do a "reinstall").
-- 
derek