Re: [vox-tech] Problem: APT internal error problem

[Ken Bloom <kMAPSabloom@ucdavis.edu>]

#debian-devel said something short and cryptic about libpam0g in its 
news (/msg apt news), but I don't know how that relates to this, nor 
even what it means. (And I'm off to get a job now, so I don't have time 
to research it more. Let me know what you find out)

On 2003.06.26 16:49, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm seeing something strange here:
>
> I just finished installing debian on an old AMD K6/2 300 machine.
> Instead of installing anything in tasksel or dselect during the
> post-boot install script, I went, after the script was finished,
> directly to the root prompt.
>
> I then modified my /etc/apt/sources.list file to contain unstable
> sources only. Then, I issued the command apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> Once the new packages were downloaded, I got this error message:
>
> "E: Internal Error, could not perform immediate configuration (2) on
> libpam0g"
>
> I've googled around for a solution to this problem, but came up empty
> handed. I can install other packages, but everytime I try to do a
> "dist-upgrade", I get this error.
>
> Any suggestions as to what to try?
>
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