Re: problems with upgrade

[Christian Christmann <plfriko@yahoo.de>]

> Firstly, trying:
> apt-get install --reinstall debconf
> should relayout a lot off stuff. But not sure if that would work

This didn't help. Same error message as posted above.

 
> otherwise try:
> apt-get clean
> dpkg --force-depends --remove debconf apt-get install debconf
> should remove debconf and download and install a new package. Note however
> that because of the "apt-get clean" you will loose all cached debs! So you
> will have to redownload those. (You could try without that step, maybe
> that fixes it too)
> 

I did both, with and without "apt-get clean" but the error message still
remains.

> If it's a bug in the postinst script all this won't help off course. Get
> back to us. :-)

Any other ideas? ;) 

Thanks.

> greets,
> Wim De Smet

Chris