Ok. I have rebooted my machine and run dselect/apt. The reboot was clean -- no problems with sh == ash. However after a successful install by the apt-dselect method I get this: "read: arg count" exit status 2. So apt somewhere uses a bashism it appears. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org