Re: apt-get upgrade just failed on potato
I fixed this by manually installing the new version of debconf
(dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.2.43_all.deb) and then
running `apt-get dist-upgrade' again.
I wrote:
> I hadn't upgraded for a few weeks, here what I got:
>
> # apt-get upgrade -u
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> cron gs kbd
> The following packages will be upgraded
> adduser apt apt-move base-passwd bc binutils bsdutils cpio cpp debconf
> debhelper debianutils debmake dhelp dpkg dpkg-dev e2fsprogs fdflush file
> fileutils g++ gcc gconv-modules groff hostname libc6 libc6-dev libnewt0
> libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpng2 libpng2-dev libstdc++2.10
> libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 locales login make makedev modutils
> mount netbase passwd procps rsync setserial shellutils tar util-linux
> whiptail xfree86-common xlib6g xlib6g-dev xpm4g xpm4g-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev
>
> 58 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
> Need to get 20.1MB of archives. After unpacking 1459kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> [cut]
> Get:24 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main apt 0.3.14 [482kB]
>
> [cut]
> Get:49 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main debconf 0.2.43 [124kB]
>
> [cut]
> Fetched 20.1MB in 13m0s (25.8kB/s)
>
>
> 100% [Scanning packages]
> Configuring packages ...
> /tmp/filebVqzUf: /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
>
> I currently have debconf 0.1.75.
>
> Any idea how to fix it?
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