Bug#816737: Broken after recent upgrade
control: tag -1 + moreinfo
On 2016-03-04 14:10, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Severity: Serious
>
> Yesterday, I tred to upgrade libc6 on my Debian GNU/testing system. But
> it didn't work. The packages are marked as broken in synaptic. Today, I
> tried apt-get -f install, but it fails too:
While the issue appears when installing libc6, I really doubt it is an
issue with this package.
> root@notebook4:/home/philipp# LANG=C apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
> gtk2-engines libglewmx1.10 libgtkglext1-dev libintl-perl libjsoncpp0v5
> libopenraw1v5 libpangox-1.0-dev libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libusb-1.0-0:i386
> lockfile-progs
> qemu-kvm
> Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following additional packages will be installed:
> libc6 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386
> Suggested packages:
> glibc-doc glibc-doc:i386 libc-l10n:i386 locales:i386
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> libc6 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386
> 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 950 not upgraded.
> 4 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/6181 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Unknown regexp modifier "/g" at
> /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 31, at end of line
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
> /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 35.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm
> line 10.
Your perl installation seems completely broken. Have you done anything
related with it recently?
> Philipp
>
> P.S.: How can I get my system back into a useable state? Since the
> failure is on de-configuring, I guess, I can't go back to an older
> version either?
You should try to reinstall perl. Something like "apt-get install
--reinstall perl perl-base perl-modules-5.22" might help.
Aurelien
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