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Author Topic: [EN] Upgrade broken: base-files installation fails due to alledgedly unmet usrmerge  (Read 3341 times)

Offline piper

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all you have to do is go to

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/var/lib/dpkg/status
scroll thru to you hit the package base-files, which looks like

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Package: base-files
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 350
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 13.5
Replaces: base, dpkg (<= 1.15.0), miscutils
Provides: base, usr-is-merged
Pre-Depends: awk
Breaks: debian-security-support (<< 2019.04.25), initscripts (<< 2.88dsf-13.3), sendfile (<< 2.1b.20080616-5.2~)
Conffiles:
 /etc/debian_version 418bf63c34339f803ffaab19df71f611
 /etc/dpkg/origins/debian c47b6815f67ad1aeccb0d4529bd0b990
 /etc/host.conf 4eb63731c9f5e30903ac4fc07a7fe3d6
 /etc/issue 4fa62803f216112e94adefbaafed16ab
 /etc/issue.net 06ea14875beb99190dfc548d4ecd24de
 /etc/update-motd.d/10-uname 9e1b832b7b06f566156e7c9e0548247b
Description: Debian base system miscellaneous files
 This package contains the basic filesystem hierarchy of a Debian system, and
 several important miscellaneous files, such as /etc/debian_version,
 /etc/host.conf, /etc/issue, /etc/motd, /etc/profile, and others,
 and the text of several common licenses in use on Debian systems.

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apt policy base-files
make sure apt policy matches what status says

if they don't match, change it in status, reboot, apt update; apt full-upgrade and no more errors

i don't use debian anymore
Free speech isn't just fucking saying what you want to say, it's also hearing what you don't want to fucking hear

I either give too many fucks or no fucks at all, it's like I cannot find a middle ground for a moderate fuck distribution, it's like what the fuck

Offline samoht

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# LANG=C /var/lib/dpkg/status
-bash: /var/lib/dpkg/status: Keine Berechtigung

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# LANG=C ls -al /var/lib/dpkg/status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3006650  2. Okt  09:44 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Offline dibl

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~$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/status
Good to see you, @piper!   :D
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Offline Penyelam

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You can also do
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grep -A 9 "Package: base-files" /var/lib/dpkg/status

Offline michaa7

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# LANG=C /var/lib/dpkg/status
-bash: /var/lib/dpkg/status: Keine Berechtigung

What do you expect here? Which programm should do what?

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# LANG=C <cat/more/less/???> /var/lib/dpkg/status
see?
Ok, you can't code, but you still might be able to write a bug report for Debian's sake

Offline samoht

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Thank you, @michaa7, for your hint that solved my complete blackout at that moment, sorry. ???