Re: Debconf broken?!
> I find it very hard to belive you don't have cdebconf, or some remnant
> of it, installed. Show me the output of:
>
> dpkg -l cdebconf
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
(Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn cdebconf <none> (no description available)
> dpkg -L cdebconf
Package `cdebconf' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> file /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,
version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
/usr/share/debconf/confmodule: Bourne shell script text executable
> DEBCONF_DEBUG='.*' dpkg --configure -a
Setting up debconf (0.5.49) ...
GET debconf/preconfig
[after enter]
dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
debconf
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