[vox-tech] Apt Problem

[Chris Jenks]

   Dear Bob,

   I had to deal with this same problem recently when a broken php module 
was put in the unstable package repository. The way I got past this 
problem was to comment out the lines (in apache2.conf, I think) that 
loaded broken modules. I can no longer find a configuration file that 
specifies modules to load, so I think it was replaced with the 
/etc/apache2/mods-available and /mods-enabled which I now see. If I had 
this problem now, I would temporarily delete the links to the broken 
modules in mods-enabled so that apache2 would not try to load them when 
being stopped/started by apt.

   Yours,

     Chris

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Bob Scofield wrote:

> I've got a problem with apt dist-upgrade.
>
> It started when I accidentally installed apache.  I then removed apache, which
> was a mistake.  I've since re-installed and re-removed apache but can't fix
> the problem.  Here's the problem.
>
> When I do "apt dist-upgrade" I get this error message:
>
> "dpkg: apache2-common: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
> request:
> apache2-mpm-prefork depends on apache2-common (= 2.0.55-4.1).
> (Reading database ... 117542 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing apache2-common ...
> Stopping apache 2.0 web server...Syntax error on line 1
> of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php4.load:
> Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so into
> server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory
> failed!
> invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "stop" failed.
> dpkg: error processing apache2-common (--remove):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> apache2-common
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:"
>
> Here's why this is a serious problem.  If I have other non-apache packages to
> upgrade, they will not upgrade after apt quits because of the apache problem.
> So the apache problem is bigger than it looks.
>
> Thank you for any help you can give me.
>
> Bob
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