From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta10.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.202]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0qlj-0003Cn-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:08:31 -0400 Received: from apollo.lan ([68.170.76.156]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040828000800.BWIA9204.mta10.adelphia.net@apollo.lan> for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:08:00 -0400 Received: from showell by apollo.lan with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0qlB-0002wG-00 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:07:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 20:07:57 -0400 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040828000757.GB11246@adelphia.net> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20040825231642.GA26169@lrxms.net> <20040826072353.GC16031@blackbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040826072353.GC16031@blackbox> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Scott Howell Subject: Re: Dpkg problems X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:08:31 -0000 Folks, Thanks to all with suggestions, but thanks to Gene COllins we found the problem. We chatted about it and tried a few things then went ahackin' and found that in /var/lib/dpkg there was this here file with one line of text. See I was trying like hell to find a file called statusoverride, but no such bugger was there. It turns out there is a statusoverride.old file, but the problem child was statoverride which contained one line of text. root Debian-exim 0640 /etc/exim4/passwd.client Now once that line was removed, no problem, I got exim installed without any hitch. I knew there had to be some file somehwere that was causing the problem, but my reading on dpkg never lead me down this path, but I hadn't found a great deal of material on dpkg, but Gene was very helpful and worked through the problem with me. Scott