Ok to catch up. Below is the output I get when I try to reinstall
debconf and perl.
SLUG:/home/aaron# apt-get install --reinstall debconf perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 3558kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.egr.msu.edu etch/main debconf 1.5.11 [146kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.egr.msu.edu etch/main perl 5.8.8-7 [3413kB]
Fetched 3558kB in 34s (103kB/s)
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/ScreenSize.pm line 33, <> line 2.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/ScreenSize.pm line 48, <> line 2.
Can't fork at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 67, <> line 2.
(Reading database ... 21927 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debconf 1.5.11 (using .../debconf_1.5.11_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debconf ...
Preparing to replace perl 5.8.8-7 (using .../archives/perl_5.8.8-7_arm.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement perl ...
Setting up debconf (1.5.11) ...
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/ScreenSize.pm line 33.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/ScreenSize.pm line 48.
open2: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 58
dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Setting up perl (5.8.8-7) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
debconf
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
The two lines in question of /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/ScreenSize.pm
Line 33 my ($rows)=`stty -a 2>/dev/null` =~ m/rows (\d+)/s;
Line 48 my ($cols)=`stty -a 2>/dev/null` =~ m/columns (\d+)/s;
The entire files contents below... Its everything between the **Start
and **End of file lines. The file ends on line 54 with a 1
** Start of File**
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# This file was preprocessed, do not edit!
package Debconf::FrontEnd::ScreenSize;
use strict;
use Debconf::Gettext;
use base qw(Debconf::FrontEnd);
sub init {
my $this=shift;
$this->SUPER::init(@_);
$this->resize; # Get current screen size.
$SIG{WINCH}=sub {
if (defined $this) {
$this->resize;
}
};
}
sub resize {
my $this=shift;
if (exists $ENV{LINES}) {
$this->screenheight($ENV{'LINES'});
$this->screenheight_guessed(0);
}
else {
my ($rows)=`stty -a 2>/dev/null` =~ m/rows (\d+)/s;
if ($rows) {
$this->screenheight($rows);
$this->screenheight_guessed(0);
}
else {
$this->screenheight(25);
$this->screenheight_guessed(1);
}
}
if (exists $ENV{COLUMNS}) {
$this->screenwidth($ENV{'COLUMNS'});
}
else {
my ($cols)=`stty -a 2>/dev/null` =~ m/columns (\d+)/s;
$this->screenwidth($cols || 80);
}
}
1
**END OF FILE**
On 6/23/07, David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 10:07 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: > 1) I first tired to install apache, php and mysql all in one command > and it bombed out so I started doing it one at a time. ...And it was only mysql which bailed out. Strange! > 2) dont know I have seen others with simular error messages post on > the web for slugs and non slugs but the answer has always been to run > apt-get -f install and it fixes it. Yes, but I don't think those are the same errors. For them, dpkg -l probably told them a package was half-installed or something like that. > 3) Oddly enough I dont appear to have a file named ScreenSize.pm in > that folder. Here is the contents of that folder. I have it two > different formats because I know some folks see it better as a list > than in columns. > > SLUG:/usr/share/perl5/Debconf# ls > AutoSelect.pm Config.pm Element Format.pm Iterator.pm Template > Base.pm Db.pm Element.pm FrontEnd Log.pm Template.pm > Client DbDriver Encoding.pm FrontEnd.pm Priority.pm TmpFile.pm > ConfModule.pm DbDriver.pm Format Gettext.pm Question.pm <snip> <sigh> me again! It should be in /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/ ... </sigh> David > On 6/23/07, David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 08:59 -0400, Aaron Klein wrote: > > > I used the Debian/NSLU2 Stable 4.0r0 firmware. > > > > Ok, then it _should_ work. So you've hit a very strange bug or file > > corruption resulting in strange behaviour or something like that. > > > > It would be very helpful to know a few things: > > > > 1) When and how did your problem start and do you see it when you > > install other packages as well? > > 2) Are there other people who hit the same bug when they install > > mysql-server-5.0? > > 3) What are the contents of your /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ScreenSize.pm > > at lines 33 and 48? Do they match mine? (probably...) > > > > I installed etch before release and upgraded mysql-server alone several > > times. That's not the same as installing it cleanly. I have never > > encountered that bug, but that might say nothing at all... > > > > Luck, > > > > David > > > > > > > >