urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:brett brett brett 2004-07-12T23:12:45Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:brett:1640 2004-07-12T23:11:27Z 2004-07-12T23:12:45Z I did apt-get dist-upgrade and got this error, any idea what it means?<br /><br /><pre> Unpacking replacement passwd ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs-data_4.3.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) </pre><br /><br />Any way to get better error messages? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:brett:640 2004-07-12T19:05:46Z 2004-07-12T19:06:42Z I'm upgrading my workstation over at <span class='ljuser' lj:user='lisa' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://lisa.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://lisa.livejournal.com/'><b>lisa</b></a></span>'s to "testing" while reading some of the debian reference documentation. I haven't used debian in a few years. It was good before, but it has definitely improved and it turns out I am liking it quite a bit.<br /><br />I am normally a FreeBSD person but I find a lot of similarity with debian, at least with availability and level of source organization. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:brett:258 2004-07-08T17:00:21Z 2004-07-08T17:00:21Z test