Evening all;
basically, server was working perfectly last night, and I decided that it would be nice to see how it would handle X; had an idea I could provide myself with an X session via SSH. aaah, well apt didn't like me - the install didn't work for some reason that still baffles me, and I can't get apt to work again. I just want to get back to my beautiful terminal!!
A bit of background info: server runs debain 2.4 (sarge), and there were a couple of notably strange things on the system. I searched Google for quite a while, and came up with
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/.../msg00007.html.
Having looked at /usr/bin/perl, I found it to be
* owned by upload (the account I use to upload stuff via FTP if need be
)
* chmod'd as rw-r--r--
so, then, I tried to install again, using apt, after having set /usr/bin/perl to chown root:root and chmod +x
Code:
debsrv:/usr/bin# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
7 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: line 3: BEGIN: command not found
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: line 1: qq{: command not found
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: line 5: use: command not found
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: line 6: use: command not found
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: line 7: ` use Debconf::Log qw(:all);'
Setting up libssl0.9.7 (0.9.7e-3sarge1) ...
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 3: use: command not found
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 4: use: command not found
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 5: use: command not found
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 6: `use Debconf::AutoSelect qw(:all);'
dpkg: error processing libssl0.9.7 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fetchmail:
fetchmail depends on libssl0.9.7; however:
Package libssl0.9.7 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fetchmail (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libclamav1:
libclamav1 depends on libssl0.9.7; however:
Package libssl0.9.7 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libclamav1 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libpango1.0-common (1.8.1-1) ...
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 3: use: command not found
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 4: use: command not found
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 5: use: command not found
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/usr/share/debconf/frontend: line 6: `use Debconf::AutoSelect qw(:all);'
dpkg: error processing libpango1.0-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openssl:
openssl depends on libssl0.9.7; however:
Package libssl0.9.7 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openssl (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up xfce4-session (0.1.3+20031213-5) ...
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 3: =/var/lib/dpkg: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 4: =/usr/lib/dpkg: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 5: =1.10.28: command not found
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 1: /enoent: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 28: =: command not found
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 28: die: command not found
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 29: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 29: `sub ENOENT { $enoent; }'
dpkg: error processing xfce4-session (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up xterm (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1) ...
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 3: =/var/lib/dpkg: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 4: =/usr/lib/dpkg: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 5: =1.10.28: command not found
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 1: /enoent: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 28: =: command not found
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 28: die: command not found
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 29: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives: line 29: `sub ENOENT { $enoent; }'
dpkg: error processing xterm (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
libssl0.9.7
fetchmail
libclamav1
libpango1.0-common
openssl
xfce4-session
xterm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Having googled extensively for a considerable length of time, I can say I'm no closer to working out the apt problem that the system seems to be suffering.
This is a bit of a stupid question, especially considering the fact that info on the system in question is pretty minimal; but would anyone know quite why the terminal should be chucking up this information?
