Re: debconf and ssh (or apt?) problem

[Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>]

On Thu 11 Nov 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 
> I just installed the latest ssh, but it wanted me to install debconf:

I have a subtlely different situation, I had debconf 0.1.70 installed,
and just tried 'apt-get upgrade':

: Reading Package Lists... Done
: Building Dependency Tree... Done
: The following packages have been kept back
:   cdrdao netstd 
: 152 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
: Need to get 0B/43.4MB of archives. After unpacking 2172kB will be used.
: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
: 99% [Working]
: 100% [Scanning packages]
: Configuring packages ...
: /tmp/file5F7pCg: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
: E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1)
: E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt
: pcpaul# ls -l /usr/share/debconf
: total 6
: -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         2190 Oct 25 19:09 confmodule.sh
: -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         2195 Oct 25 19:09 frontend

> So, I installed debconf. Now when I try to install ssh it says:

I installed debconf 0.2.22 at this stage.

>   stty: standard input: Invalid argument
>   stty: standard input: Invalid argument
>   100% [Scanning packages]
>   Configuring packages ...
>   Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 103, <GEN0> chunk 6.
>   This shouldn't happen at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Text/Wrap.pm line 45, <GEN0> chunk 6.
>   E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (255)
>   E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt

I get this:

: 151 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
: Need to get 0B/43.3MB of archives. After unpacking 2135kB will be used.
: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
: 99% [Working]
: stty: standard input: Invalid argument
: stty: standard input: Invalid argument
: 100% [Scanning packages]
: Configuring packages ...
: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Text/Wrap.pm line 30, <GEN0> chunk 2.
: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Text/Wrap.pm line 31, <GEN0> chunk 2.
: This shouldn't happen at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Text/Wrap.pm line 45, <GEN0> chunk 2.
: E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (255)
: E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt


I have apt 0.3.13 and perl-5.005 5.005.03-4 installed. What's going on?!



Paul Slootman
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