updating doesn't work anymore

[Markus Schönhaber]

20.05.2010 13:54, Joep L. Blom:

> Markus,
> Following up on my reply yesterday I tried that, renaming 
> libc-bin.triggers to ~.old and then reinstalling libc-bin. Well, that 
> doesn't work as libc-bin is used apparently by dpkg and as 
> libc-bin.triggers is missing it comes with the error:
> E: libc-bin: subprocess installed post-installation script returned 
> error exit status 2.

What exactly did you do? And is this really the only message you get?

The following works for me:

/var/lib/dpkg/info# mv -v libc-bin.triggers libc-bin.triggers.old
`libc-bin.triggers' -> `libc-bin.triggers.old'
/var/lib/dpkg/info# aptitude reinstall libc-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  libc-bin
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/784kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 44954 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc-bin 2.10.1-0ubuntu16 (using
.../libc-bin_2.10.1-0ubuntu16_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc-bin ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libc-bin (2.10.1-0ubuntu16) ...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

/var/lib/dpkg/info# ls -l libc-bin*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   70 2010-01-03 13:03 libc-bin.conffiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1287 2010-05-20 15:08 libc-bin.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2200 2010-01-03 13:03 libc-bin.md5sums
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  174 2010-01-03 13:03 libc-bin.postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   18 2010-01-03 13:02 libc-bin.triggers
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   18 2010-01-03 13:02 libc-bin.triggers.old
/var/lib/dpkg/info#

> So I need an install process without using dpkg or apt-get.
> I don't think your libc-bin.triggers will work as it is too much 
> differing from mine I think.

Hm, my guess would be that you'd have a hard time finding a second
Karmic installation where the libc-bin.triggers is *not* the same as mine.

-- 
Regards
  mks