Re: HELP: apt = E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton ...

[Bruno Boettcher <bboett@erm1.u-strasbg.fr>]

> The 'Internal error' bit is a fixed APT bug, dpkg --configure -a will
> clear it, the weird dpkg output is something totally different and
> unrelated.
ok, and any suggestion on how to get rid of it? Now the installation stalls at :
localhost:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  cron gs guile1.3 netstd pingus proftpd pvm pvm-dev ssh 
182 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/77.6MB of archives. After unpacking 2663kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

100% [Scanning packages]
Configuring packages ...
/tmp/fileIQpGZk: /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

....
better, but still preventing any update...


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