Drew Parsons wrote: > Thanks for the tip. > > It didn't help, however. The "debconf/entry doesn't exist" problems are > still there afterwards. Were there any extra parameters I ought to > supply to fix_db.pl? > > What did help was to manually delete all entries for a given package > from /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and templates.dat. After doing that > the package (e.g. xserver-xorg) installed normally with the full set of > debconf questions getting rewritten to those files. I'd rather not have > to do that separately for each of the two dozen affected packages, or to > delete those debconf files completely, if I don't have to! It's hard to tell what the problem is without an actual error message. If it's literally complaining about debconf/* items, you might need to reinstall debconf. -- see shy jo
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