Bug#816737: Broken after recent upgrade
On 2016-03-05 00:45, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 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?
Any news about that?
> > 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.
Any luck fixing your system? Do you need help?
Aurelien
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