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Re: problems with debconf



On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:47:29AM +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:55:29AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > hello,
> > i have some problems with debconf in unstable:
> > # apt-get install --reinstall debconf
> > [...]
> > Setting up debconf (1.2.42) ...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst: /usr/share/debconf/frontend:
> > /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Looks like something is wrong with perl.  Check the permissions.  If
> they look right, maybe you should reinstall perl.

That can happen if the script is not executable either.
Check that /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst is executable.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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