Bug#521122: console-setup: fails to install: "eval: line 2125: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'"
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.29
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
The package fails to install. From the aptitude output:
/tmp/console-setup.config.263961: eval: line 2125: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
console-setup failed to preconfigure, with exit status 2
...
Setting up console-setup (1.29) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup.config: eval: line 2125: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
dpkg: error processing console-setup (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
console-setup
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up console-setup (1.29) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/console-setup.config: eval: line 2125: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
dpkg: error processing console-setup (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
console-setup
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc6-wl-lizzie
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-terminus 4.26-2.1 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii xkb-data 1.5-2 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Linux console and font utilities
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.9-6 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii lsb-base 3.2-22 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: USA - Dvorak
console-setup/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/modelcode: acer_laptop
console-setup/fontsize: 16
console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
console-setup/layoutcode: us
debian-installer/console-setup/title:
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: Right Alt
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: Terminus
console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
console-setup/optionscode: lv3:ralt_switch
console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
* console-setup/layout: USA
console-setup/variantcode: dvorak
* console-setup/model: Acer Laptop
* console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16
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