Re: [PLUG] debian upgrade confusion

[Greg Lopp <lopp@fuse.net>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:03:32PM +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > [Wherein I spoke of wanting to upgrade from potato to woody, and my
> > fears and trepidations related thereto. And various people offered
> > useful advice and comforting assurances that all would be well in
> > the end.]
> 
> OK, I did it. Or, that is, I'm still doing it. But I've got a bit of a
> problem.
> 
> The dist-upgrade terminated with
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> Selecting previously deselected package postgresql.
> (Reading database ... 42027 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking postgresql (from .../postgresql_7.1release-4_i386.deb) ...
> 
> Found an existing database directory at /var/lib/postgres/data
> 
> Selecting previously deselected package libpgtcl.
> Unpacking libpgtcl (from .../libpgtcl_7.1release-4_i386.deb) ...
> (Reading database ... 42606 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing libpgsql2 ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpgsql2.prerm: /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing libpgsql2 (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libpgsql2
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/jeff
> diderot:~# 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So I tried again:
> 

Hmmmm.  Looks like you area stuck at the point of removing
libpgsql2.  Try..

~# touch /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf
~# dpkg -r libpgsql2

I doubt you'll get far until libpgsql2 is removed....You could
cheat the whole issue by changing
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpgsql2.prerm to return successfully.

Greg


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