Damn Small Linux - Not!

Jumbalaya · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

i`ve followed the instructions above but it gives me this error on apt-get install perl:

Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libdb4.2 libgdbm3 perl-base perl-modules
Suggested packages:
libterm-readline-perl-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdb4.2 libgdbm3 perl perl-modules
The following packages will be upgraded
perl-base
1 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 140 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/6579kB of archives.
After unpacking 23.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
apt-extracttemplates: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-inst-libc6.3-5.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Setting up libc6 (2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4) ...
date: invalid date `Sun Oct 8 16:43:04 UTC 2006'
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
libc6
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@dslbox:/#

i don`t know what causes this error...the strange thing is that "invalid date"

Juanito · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

I got a similar message about libc6 and the date which was cured by loading gnu-utils.dsl before apt-get install debconf, perl & apt-utils.

Jumbalaya · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

i've tried to reload gnu-utils but still same error...

btw i decided to try again from the beginning (deleting and copying back the files, like dpkg-restore, etc) and it seems to work now! probably i made a mistake copying

tnx for the help!

Juanito · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

Maybe it's because RC4 is not yet "ready" for apt-get, but I'm still struggling to get it to work without errors. Here's what I have been doing:

dpkg-restore
mydsl-load gnu-utils (if I don't do this there is a libc6 error)
apt-get update (to debian stable)
apt-get install debconf

debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3 /usr/locl/share/perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 1) lie 4.

apt-get install perl
apt-get install apt-utils

According to the comments earlier in this thread, things should now be OK, but...

apt-get install make

Setting up make (3.80-9) ...
Can't locate dpkg-gettext.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . /usr/lib/dpkg) at /usr/sbin/install-info line 7.

So I tried

apt-get install dpkg
apt-get install make

Setting up make (3.80-9) ...
install-info(/usr/share/info/make.info.gz): no backup file /var/backups/infodir.bak available.
install-info(/usr/share/info/make.info.gz): no default file /usr/share/base-files/info.dir available, giving up.

I have a feeling the answer must be simple, but I cannot figure out what it is - can anybody help?

PrafulShah · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Toronto

Solution: Go to following file

/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst

Original on code as follow on line 10.
zone_banner() {
TZBase=$(LC_ALL=C TZ=UTC0 date)
UTdate=$(TZ=UTC0 date -d "$TZBase")
TZdate=$(TZ="$timezone" date -d "$TZBase")

change to following

zone_banner() {
TZBase=$(LC_ALL=C TZ=UTC0 date)
UTdate=$(LANG=C TZ=UTC0 date)
TZdate=$(LANG=C TZ="$timezone" date)

It work fine after this fix.

Praful Shah

PrafulShah · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Toronto

Solution: Go to following file

/var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst

Original on code as follow on line 10.
zone_banner() {
TZBase=$(LC_ALL=C TZ=UTC0 date)
UTdate=$(TZ=UTC0 date -d "$TZBase")
TZdate=$(TZ="$timezone" date -d "$TZBase")

change to following

zone_banner() {
TZBase=$(LC_ALL=C TZ=UTC0 date)
UTdate=$(LANG=C TZ=UTC0 date)
TZdate=$(LANG=C TZ="$timezone" date)

It work fine after this fix.

Praful Shah

Thanatos · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1

i tried to mount the KNOPPIX file like that
[quote="roberts"]Just do another mount of the KNOPPIX file.

#mkdir /mnt/test
#mount /path_to/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX /mnt/test -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/cloop50

Just pick an unused cloop device, eg, cloop50[/quote]

and I got the following error

"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so"

i have no clue what the error means and how i will get it to work
i hope someone can help me
thx