[TriLUG] cupsys broken, libslp1 at fault?

[Brian Henning]

Er..  not to take anyone's attention away from the ongoing intense 
discussion about electronic voting issues, does truly no one have any 
suggestions concerning this problem I posted about on Tuesday?

Thanks,
~Brian

Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi List,
>   The latest round of updates from aptitude seems to have borked my cups 
> installation; specifically, cupsys won't install.  Closer inspection 
> seems to tie the problem to libslp1, which also won't install.  I'm not 
> sure how to get more information than the "...exited with Error 1" 
> messages.  Here's the output of some dpkg commands:
> 
> % dpkg-query -W libslp1
> libslp1 1.2.1-3
> 
> % dpkg --configure libslp1
> dpkg: error processing libslp1 (--configure):
>  package libslp1 is not ready for configuration
>  cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libslp1
> 
> % dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/libslp1-1.2.1-3_i386.deb
> (Reading database ... 158782 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libslp1 1.2.1-3 (using 
> .../libslp1_1.2.1-3_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libslp1 ...
> frontend: cannot connect to X server
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> frontend: cannot connect to X server
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libslp1_1.2.1-3_i386.deb 
> (--install):
>  subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> frontend: cannot connect to X server
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libslp1_1.2.1-3_i386.deb
> 
> libslp1-1.2.1-5 is the current version, which spits out exactly the same 
> error messages.  How do I find out what "error exit status 1" means, and 
> how to fix it?  I'd sure like printing to work again.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> ~Brian
> 

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