offtopinc flaming (Re: packages tasksel expects to find in woody, that arn't there)
I have no idea what got this bug up your butt; according to my mail
archives I spent a fair amount of time corresponding with you last year,
but it seemed you were experiencing disk corruption. For the record
I attach the entirety of my correspondence with you.
And I do mean entirety... plonk.
>From joey@kitenet.net Sat Dec 15 11:27:35 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:27:35 -0500
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
To: ben <benfoley@rcn.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: perl unconfigured
Message-ID: <20011215162735.GA20976@kitenet.net>
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ben wrote:
> i'm getting a debconf message that perl may be unconfigured. this comes after a system freeze while
> dist-upgrading. i've searched for solutions for the last eight hours but i have absolutely no idea how to
> fix this. i attempted to reinstall perl but got an unmet dependency response that konsole depends on
> "kdebase-libs (= 4:2.2.2-6) but 4:2.2.2-9 is to be installed." what can i do to sort this out?
Try posting the complete message to this list.
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>From joey@kitenet.net Sat Dec 15 18:52:31 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 18:52:31 -0500
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
To: ben <benfoley@rcn.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: perl unconfigured
Message-ID: <20011215235231.GA1504@kitenet.net>
Mail-Followup-To: ben <benfoley@rcn.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
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ben wrote:
> here's the relevant part about perl being unconfigured. the later section about files list files missing is
> something i've dealt with before but not, apparently, with an unconfigured perl.
>
> [paste]
> Reading changelogs...33%Reading changelogs...66%Reading changelogs...Done
> debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC (@INC
> contains: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at (eval 1)
> line 4.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4.
> ) -- aborting
Looks like you either have a broken debconf install, or too old a
version has somehow been installed. What version of debconf do you
currently have install? dpkg -s debconf
> (Reading database ...
> dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `nas-lib' missing, assuming
> package has no files currently installed.
>
> dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kdelibs3' missing, assuming
> package has no files currently installed.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/konsole_4%3a2.2.2-8_i386.deb
> [paste]
Sounds like you have some disk corruption going on here.
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>From joey@kitenet.net Sat Dec 15 23:05:57 2001
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:05:57 -0500
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
To: ben <benfoley@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: perl unconfigured
Message-ID: <20011216040557.GA1621@kitenet.net>
References: <20011215062850.GA4172@rcn.com> <20011215162735.GA20976@kitenet.net> <20011215181020.GA28937@rcn.com> <20011215235231.GA1504@kitenet.net> <20011216004512.GC1592@rcn.com>
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ben wrote:
> i'm much more willing to put time into manually fixing this, rather than
> trashing it all and re-installing, so any help you can offer i the way
> of expeditious solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Well you can probably get a bit further along by moving
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf out of the way (if it exists), and
commenting out any lines in /etc/apt/apt.conf that refer to
dpkg-preconfigure. This should let you run apt to finish onfiguring
debconf.
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>From joey@kitenet.net Sun Dec 16 12:09:07 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:09:07 -0500
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
To: ben <benfoley@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: perl unconfigured
Message-ID: <20011216170907.GB2802@kitenet.net>
References: <20011215062850.GA4172@rcn.com> <20011215162735.GA20976@kitenet.net> <20011215181020.GA28937@rcn.com> <20011215235231.GA1504@kitenet.net> <20011216004512.GC1592@rcn.com> <20011216040557.GA1621@kitenet.net> <20011216055558.GF1592@rcn.com>
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ben wrote:
> i shifted 70debconf and checked apt.conf, but i currently have no clue
> on how to use apt to configure debconf. can you give me the syntax for
> that?
apt-get install debconf
Or you might need to reinstall it, if it is broken due to disk
corruption
apt-get --reinstall install debconf
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>From joey@kitenet.net Sun Dec 16 12:10:24 2001
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:10:24 -0500
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
To: ben <benfoley@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: perl unconfigured
Message-ID: <20011216171024.GC2802@kitenet.net>
References: <20011215062850.GA4172@rcn.com> <20011215162735.GA20976@kitenet.net> <20011215181020.GA28937@rcn.com> <20011215235231.GA1504@kitenet.net> <20011216004512.GC1592@rcn.com> <20011216040557.GA1621@kitenet.net> <20011216064106.GH1592@rcn.com>
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ben wrote:
> another thing: having done the edit on apt.conf, when i run 'apt-config
> dump' it shows
>
> DPKG::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"
>
> given that you suggested editing this out of apt.conf, i'm kinda
> wondering where it gets this from--or is this a whole 'nother deal?
I hope you moved the 70debconf file out of apt.conf.d entirely?
Oh, I think you have to comment out stuff in these files using C-style
comments, not hashes. So try commenting it out with // :
// DPKG::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"
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