Re: Debconf broken?!
Jon Eisenstein wrote:
> I've sent this to the debconf-specific list, but the only response I
> received was one that didn't apply. I'm having a severe problem right now
> with my installation system. Instead of describing it in words, here's
> what a session looks like. (Note: At this point, because of the problems,
> I'm attempting to reinstall debconf itself, so that's the package you'll
> see)
>
> dominia:~# dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ...
> GET debconf/preconfig
> (pressed enter, since nothing's happening)
> dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
>
> The solution that was suggested was to remove cdebconf. Unfortunately,
> when the problems started I did so, and it was not installed by the time I
> asked for help. Does anyone have any idea what I could do to get my system
> working again?
I find it very hard to belive you don't have cdebconf, or some remnant
of it, installed. Show me the output of:
dpkg -l cdebconf
dpkg -L cdebconf
file /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
DEBCONF_DEBUG='.*' dpkg --configure -a
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see shy jo
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